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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to Kitty's husband during the War?
(a) He was jailed as a conscientious objector.
(b) He survived the horrors of the Burma Railway.
(c) He was a prisoner of war in Germany.
(d) He was a prisoner of war in the Philippines.

2. What is the cause of Mary's emotional distress?
(a) She is afraid Clarissa will steal Julia away from her.
(b) She is upset by her encounter with Clarissa.
(c) She knows Julia will never love her the way she needs.
(d) The trauma of going shopping and having to face sales clerks.

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

4. What does the word 'ephemera' mean?
(a) Something scary.
(b) Something false.
(c) Something short-lived.
(d) Something ghostly.

5. Which novel is Laura Brown reading?
(a) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
(b) Mrs Dalloway by Vanessa Albee
(c) Virginia Woolf by Vanessa Bell
(d) Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the neighbors' garage made of?

2. In what season of the year does this part of the story take place?

3. What does 'the new world--the rescued world' refer to?

4. Where does Clarissa imagine her rejected future taking place?

5. Literally, what does the word 'porcine' mean?

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