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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 surprises Sally about Oliver?
(a) That he is so short.
(b) He is not much different from his movie persona.
(c) That he is gay.
(d) That he is ordinary and ill-tempered.

2. What does Laura intend to do in the hotel room?
(a) Read Pride and Prejudice.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Read Mrs Dalloway.
(d) Commit suicide.

3. What is Nelly preparing for supper?
(a) Boiled beef.
(b) Roast beef.
(c) Beef with burgundy.
(d) Beef Wellington.

4. What can Laura see out of the hotel window?
(a) A statue of Christ.
(b) Cars on a freeway.
(c) A V-shaped plaza with a fountain.
(d) A row of shops and a fountain.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Leonard want Virginia to do?

3. What does Nelly bring from London?

4. Why can't Laura take the sleeping pills?

5. What is the toothbrush-holder made of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is ironic about Richard's apartment being open to the light?

2. Over what matters concerning Julia does Clarissa worry?

3. What do the two women exchange as Laura prepares to return home?

4. What gives Laura the feeling that she has actually succeeded in achieving a kind of perfection?

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

6. What is unusual about Louis' visit?

7. What does Louis think of Clarissa?

8. What is Sally's reaction to Walter's present-buying?

9. What distracts Laura as she gets out of her car at Mrs. Latch's house?

10. Why has Virginia's attitude changed?

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