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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Virginia put in the pocket of her cardigan?
(a) Money.
(b) A large stone.
(c) Two suicide notes.
(d) A handful of pebbles and small rocks.

2. What color is Laura's gown?
(a) White.
(b) Pale aqua.
(c) A soft green.
(d) Blue.

3. Who is described as being foreign-looking, with a Roman nose?
(a) Clarissa Vaughan.
(b) Virginia Woolf.
(c) Laura Brown.
(d) Clarissa Dalloway.

4. Why did Barbara come to New York?
(a) To sing opera.
(b) To open a florist shop.
(c) To escape a disapproving family.
(d) To be near her lover, an opera singer.

5. How does Laura imagine the birthday cake?
(a) As better than anything in a magazine.
(b) As good as anything in a magazine.
(c) Better than she could by downtown.
(d) Equal to anything in the shops.

6. What does Laura think of the shadow of the passing bird?
(a) She is briefly alarmed by it.
(b) She is indifferent to it.
(c) She thinks of how it represents freedom.
(d) She is briefly, deeply pleased by it.

7. Who gives Clarissa the nickname 'Mrs Dalloway'?
(a) Sally
(b) Richard
(c) Virginia
(d) Dennis

8. What does Virginia fear?
(a) Pain.
(b) Anger.
(c) Jellyfish.
(d) Relapse.

9. What is Laura doing with the blue bowl?
(a) Admiring it.
(b) Sifting flour into it.
(c) Washing it up.
(d) Beating butter and sugar in it.

10. In what season of the year does this part of the story take place?
(a) Winter.
(b) Autumn.
(c) Spring.
(d) Summer.

11. How does Clarissa regard herself?
(a) As specially loving.
(b) As an unlucky woman.
(c) As a failed artist.
(d) As a fortunate woman.

12. What is the neighbors' garage made of?
(a) Bricks painted blinding white.
(b) White clapboard.
(c) White stucco.
(d) Aluminium.

13. What has appeared in the window-box of the woman next door?
(a) Petunias.
(b) A rose.
(c) A single gerbera.
(d) A dandelion.

14. How old was Richard when he and Clarissa argued?
(a) Nineteen.
(b) Forty.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Eighteen.

15. What is a sarcophagus?
(a) A stone coffin.
(b) A sarcastic Greek.
(c) A person who eats flesh.
(d) A kind of bone cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Clarissa urge Richard to do?

2. Where is this chapter set?

3. What are Virginia and Marjorie doing when Vanessa arrives?

4. Why does Clarissa take the stairs?

5. What is the maid's response to Leonard's alarm?

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