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

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

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

4. How many times has Laura tried to get the cake right?
(a) Three times.
(b) Once.
(c) She gave up and bought one.
(d) Twice.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does London mean to Virginia?

2. What makes Virginia think of millinery?

3. As she drives, in what does Laura find consolation?

4. What is unusual about Clarissa and Sally?

5. What causes Laura's unexpressed desperation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Laura's rather bitter hopes about heaven?

2. What is unusual about Louis' visit?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What writing decision of Virginia's is prompted by her success in her campaign to move back to London?

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

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