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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the unusual light in Richard's apartment reveal?
(a) That he really needs to fire his cleaning lady.
(b) His astonishing taste in art.
(c) The flaws and smallness of his life's detritus.
(d) The way the illness has ravaged his face and body.

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

3. What world does Laura feel she now inhabits?
(a) A twilight zone of London in the twenties.
(b) A holistic zone of healing.
(c) A twilight world of Los Angeles smog.
(d) A world away from the mundane.

4. What does writing, when inspired, give to Virginia?
(a) Profound satisfaction.
(b) A kind of madness.
(c) Money.
(d) A sense of timelessness.

5. What species of bird is mentioned as this chapter draws to a close?
(a) Robins.
(b) Nightjars.
(c) Rooks.
(d) Herons.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character does Julia describe as strange?

2. Vanessa resembles a sculpture of which period, according to Virginia?

3. What drove Clarissa to part from Richard over thirty years ago?

4. What is Virginia doing as she muses?

5. What makes Virginia shudder?

(see the answer key)

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