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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Leonard want Virginia to do?
(a) To do as she pleases.
(b) To make boeuf en daube.
(c) To come to bed by 11.
(d) To come to bed at once.

2. When she has to choose, what does Laura do?
(a) She heads off back the way she came.
(b) She drives into Los Angeles.
(c) She drives to Pasadena.
(d) She drives along the Pasadena Freeway.

3. What makes Richie frown in concentration?
(a) Trying not to spill crumbs as he eats the birthday cake.
(b) Making a wish as the birthday candles burn.
(c) The job of removing the candles from the cake.
(d) Trying to make out the letters on the cake.

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

5. What is disturbing about Virginia kissing Vanessa?
(a) It is done behind Nelly's back.
(b) It is done behind Leonard's back.
(c) It happens on the train to London.
(d) It is not quite innocent.

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

7. How does Virginia describe Vanessa's hand?
(a) Elegant and graceful.
(b) Skinny.
(c) Plump.
(d) Moist and fat.

8. What has made Richard feel wonderful?
(a) The colors on his robe.
(b) The combination of drugs he has taken.
(c) The lovely day outside his gloomy apartment.
(d) The decision that he has made.

9. As she drives, in what does Laura find consolation?
(a) The impeccable way she has organized things.
(b) That her earrings match her bracelet.
(c) That she has remembered to bring her book.
(d) That the car is clean.

10. In what way does Oliver intend this film to be different?
(a) The hero will be an uncomplicated gay man.
(b) The hero will be an alien.
(c) The hero will be a tortured gay man with HIV.
(d) The hero will die in the end.

11. What gives Mrs. Latch's garage the look of a miniature house?
(a) The way the door has a green-shuttered window in it.
(b) The way the door has two little red windows in it.
(c) The size and shape of it compared to the main house.
(d) The way the door has a cantilevered front extension, like a storm porch.

12. What does Nelly bring from London?
(a) Jasmine tea and melting moments.
(b) A child's coat from Harrods.
(c) China tea and digestive biscuits.
(d) China tea and sugared ginger.

13. How has Laura set the table?
(a) With a starched white cloth.
(b) With a batik cloth she bought in Bali.
(c) With a set of white place-mats.
(d) With a serviceable oilcloth.

14. What genre of screenplay are they discussing?
(a) Thriller.
(b) Film noir.
(c) Musical.
(d) Drama.

15. Why can't Laura take the sleeping pills?
(a) She is pregnant.
(b) They are too strong.
(c) They are past use-by date.
(d) She feels guilty.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much of her book has Laura now read?

2. How many times will Clarissa Dalloway have kissed a woman?

3. What does Clarissa imagine her roses appear to be, according to Mary's view of the world?

4. What is the toothbrush-holder made of?

5. What will haunt Clarissa's life?

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