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

2. What is the toothbrush-holder made of?
(a) Porcelain.
(b) Stainless steel.
(c) Wicker.
(d) Glass.

3. What does Richard call death?
(a) ''The black silence'.
(b) 'The scary monster'.
(c) 'The green silence'.
(d) 'The black evil'.

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

5. When she has to choose, what does Laura do?
(a) She drives to Pasadena.
(b) She drives into Los Angeles.
(c) She heads off back the way she came.
(d) She drives along the Pasadena Freeway.

Short Answer Questions

1. What jewelry is Laura wearing?

2. What makes Virginia think of millinery?

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

4. What does Laura remember being sold in novelty shops?

5. How does Virginia describe Vanessa's hand?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Over what matters concerning Julia does Clarissa worry?

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

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

9. Why is suicide not an option for Laura?

10. What is Richard's most precious memory of Clarissa?

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