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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 prompts Laura's fury?
(a) Dan secretly laughing at Laura's efforts.
(b) Dan's spittle on the cake.
(c) Dan being off-hand with Richie.
(d) Dan being unable to blow out the candles.

2. Who wears gold-rimmed glasses?
(a) Sally.
(b) Clarissa.
(c) Walter Hardy.
(d) Oliver St. Ives.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Virginia think of millinery?

2. What does Richard call death?

3. At what time of day does Virginia set off for a walk?

4. What is important about the imagery of the squirrel's tail?

5. What genre of screenplay are they discussing?

Short Essay Questions

1. Over what matters concerning Julia does Clarissa worry?

2. What makes Virginia, at this point, begin to reconsider killing off her character, Mrs. Dalloway?

3. What are some of the ways in which Laura justifies to herself her trip to the hotel just in order to read?

4. Which character is referred to as the subjugated Amazon Queen?

5. Why does Walter want to buy his young partner a present?

6. In what way is Laura's ambivalence towards her husband evident in Chapter 19 of The Hours?

7. Why is suicide not an option for Laura?

8. What fears does Virginia have at this point in the novel?

9. Why has Virginia's attitude changed?

10. What does Virginia see as a kind of devil?

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