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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is unusual about Clarissa and Sally?
(a) They dislike each other, but stay together in order not to lose face.
(b) They are a couple who never fight.
(c) One is an artist and the other is a stock-broker.
(d) Their relationship has laster twenty-seven years.

2. What does Laura seem to have learned through her time in the kitchen with Richie?
(a) The foolishness of too much introspection.
(b) That she doesn't want a second child.
(c) The knack of living happily.
(d) That she needs to be close to Richie.

3. Why does Laura tell Richie he is a smart boy?
(a) He can count to four.
(b) He can sift flour.
(c) He can fetch things from the cupboard.
(d) He can count to twenty.

4. What worries Leonard about Virginia's behavior?
(a) She is being rude to Nelly.
(b) She is refusing to eat.
(c) She is unable to work.
(d) She is relying too much on coffee and alcohol.

5. In what way does Laura think she is similar to Virginia Woolf?
(a) She has a big nose, and so does Virginia.
(b) She has a husband who doesn't quite understand her.
(c) She thinks both of them could arrange flowers beautifully.
(d) She thinks she has a touch of the same brilliance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the woman under the arch doing?

2. What is Richie nervous about?

3. What can Virginia feel inside herself?

4. Who dozes on a slatted bench?

5. What does Leonard worship above all else?

(see the answer key)

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