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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. Which of the characters begins Section 8?
2. What is the effect of the sun's beams at the beginning of Section 5?
3. In Section 6, Who remarks, "Percival has died . . . Life passes."?
4. In Section 5, who asks, "but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?"
5. In Section 7, how does the poem which Louis muses on begin?
Short Essay Questions
1. Which image becomes more dominant in Section 8's introductory vignette, and what do you think it signifies?
2. What is different about Susan in Section 7?
3. Describe how Susan appears in Section 6.
4. What do the characters do after they leave the restaurant in Section 8, and what happens then?
5. Describe how Jinny appears in Section 6.
6. Describe the way Louis is characterized in Section 7.
7. The first thing the reader learns in Section 5 is that Percival has died. How did he die, and who does it seem to have the strongest effect on?
8. Characterize Neville's state of mind as he appears at the end of Section 6.
9. How is Section 6's opening description distinct, and what should the reader expect from the rest of the section?
10. Characterize the way Bernard appears in Section 5.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay which compares and contrasts any two of the sections' introductory vignettes. Pick one vignette which is typical of the whole novel, and one which is atypical (there are two in particular). What separates these vignettes? Include as many reasons as you can think of as to why Woolf would change her method at such a point in the text.
Essay Topic 2
Two characters die in this text, Rhoda and Percival, and there are at least two births, to Susan and Bernard. Evaluate the significance of the death of these two characters.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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