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The Hours Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What crisis looms before tea?
(a) The crisis over the dying thrush.
(b) Squabbles about the meaning of life.
(c) The later arrival of the sugared ginger.
(d) The failure of the cake.

2. What has attracted a small crowd?
(a) Cate Blanchett.
(b) Two young girls.
(c) The film activities.
(d) A Chinese boy.

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

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

5. Where is Leonard when Virginia goes to talk to him?
(a) In the garden.
(b) In his study.
(c) In the printing room.
(d) In the kitchen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is interesting about Richard's lungs?

2. For whom does Virginia leave notes?

3. How early are Vanessa and the children for their expected visit?

4. What has appeared in the window-box of the woman next door?

5. Who gives Clarissa the nickname 'Mrs Dalloway'?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is significant about Vanessa's visit to Hogarth House?

2. Why is Richard's nickname for Clarissa ('Mrs Dalloway') an appropriate choice?

3. Why did Virginia not engage more with Nelly over the matter of the day's menu?

4. How pervasive are the voices Virginia hears?

5. As presented in this chapter, what is Clarissa Vaughan's attitude to life?

6. Explain what is meant by the comment that Laura Brown is 'trying to keep herself'.

7. What fascinates Laura about Virginia Woolf's death?

8. What are Laura's feelings about her son?

9. What impression of Leonard Woolf is given in this chapter?

10. What is unusual about the headache Virginia suffers?

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