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

2. Where does Clarissa imagine her rejected future taking place?
(a) Italy or France.
(b) Ireland or Australia.
(c) Italy or Spain.
(d) France and Spain.

3. When she was at school, Kitty was part of _________________________________.
(a) The dominant, popular group of cheerleaders and stars.
(b) A Christian fundamentalist group.
(c) The bookish group who hung around the library.
(d) A group who dropped out of school before graduating.

4. How does Virginia see herself?
(a) As a great writer.
(b) As a privileged wife.
(c) As a closet lesbian.
(d) As merely a gifted eccentric.

5. Who careens past on a bicycle?
(a) A policeman.
(b) A Chinese boy.
(c) Walter.
(d) Barbara.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is disturbing Laura?

2. Why does Clarissa take the stairs?

3. Where is Leonard when Virginia goes to talk to him?

4. In what way does Virginia see Clarissa coming to her senses.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What makes Clarissa Vaughan embarrassed?

2. How does Laura plan to compensate for her neglect of Dan and Richie at breakfast?

3. When Clarissa thinks of Richard's illness, what makes her resentful?

4. What is unusual about the headache Virginia suffers?

5. Comment on an aspect of the Prologue's final paragraph.

6. What does Willie Bass think of Clarissa?

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

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

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

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

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