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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do the characters do upon Percival's arrival in Section 4?
2. What is the name of the boys' headmaster?
3. Who is the first of the female speakers in Section 3?
4. Whose "mind is far too complex to be roused by any single activity"?
5. Which of the characters muses on a book that he wishes to keep when he is older?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the boys' experiences in chapel while at school in Section 2.
2. Overall, what should the reader take away as most significant from Section 1?
3. Describe in your own words the scene at the very beginning of Section 1, and offer an idea of why Woolf would begin this novel in such a way.
4. Briefly analyze Neville's attitude towards religion.
5. Why is it relevant that Bernard is the first speaker in Section 4?
6. When the characters change locations in the text, it is not always noticeable. Identify why this is and the effect on the reader.
7. As the characters appear in Section 2, do you feel that they are becoming more or less self-aware? Briefly explain your answer with relevant examples from the text.
8. Describe the attitude of the characters towards each other prior to Percival's arrival in Section 4.
9. Describe the way Section 3's introduction, the italicized vignette, fits in with the rest of Section 3 as a whole.
10. Bernard is clearly becoming the most central of the six characters. Describe his characteristics as he appears in Section 3.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Evaluate the novel's final image. It is an appropriate one? What is the significance of both the waves as they appear in these vignettes, and as a title? Are there other instances of waves appearing in this novel, rather than in their literal form? There are many instances where a character's interior monologue describes something as being wave-like. Does the novel structurally parallel waves?
Essay Topic 2
What is the role of a narrator in a typical novel? Is there are narrator in this text? Are each of the six characters a "narrator" because they "narrate?" How do you characterize the speaker that relates the introductory vignettes? Is Woolf the novel's narrator, or merely its architect? Explain what a narrator is, what kinds of narrators there are, whether there are any in this text, and if not, how that affects its reception by the reader.
Essay Topic 3
Write a detailed essay that addresses the question of whether or not Bernard is the novel's central character. Provide ample textual evidence to support your claim.
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