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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What significant fact do we learn about Louis's love-life in the course of his major Section 7 monologue?
(a) Rhoda has left him.
(b) He and Rhoda are married.
(c) He has struck up an affair with Jinny.
(d) He is a homosexual.

2. What is Susan doing when she begins her Section 7 monologue?
(a) Speaking with Bernard.
(b) Playing with her daughters.
(c) Alone in her room at Elvedon.
(d) Walking with her son in the garden.

3. What should the reader infer that Rhoda is thinking about at the end of her Section 7 monologue?
(a) Suicide/Death.
(b) Falling in love.
(c) Bearing children.
(d) Marriage.

4. In Section 5, how does Bernard describe Percival's presence in the lives of the other characters?
(a) As spiritual.
(b) As didactic.
(c) As a conductor.
(d) As a mediator.

5. Who is Section 6's last speaker?
(a) Bernard.
(b) Jinny.
(c) Rhoda.
(d) Neville.

6. What does Neville conclude at the end of his Section 6 monologue?
(a) That, despite his love for Percival, he could find another man to love.
(b) That Percival's death has paralyzed him.
(c) That Percival had no effect on him.
(d) That he will commit suicide.

7. Who is holding Louis's hand in Section 8?
(a) Neville.
(b) Jinny.
(c) Rhoda.
(d) Susan.

8. With what event in Bernard's life does the major news in Section 5 coincide?
(a) The birth of his first child.
(b) Jinny's engagement.
(c) The death of his father.
(d) His wedding.

9. What phrase does Susan use to describe her position in life as it is in Section 7?
(a) That she is, "no longer young. No longer part of the procession."
(b) That she, "divests herself of her authority."
(c) She has "reached the summit of her desires."
(d) That she is "not one of those who find their satisfaction in one person, or in infinity."

10. Who has the first monologue of this Section 6?
(a) Bernard.
(b) Louis.
(c) Susan.
(d) Jinny.

11. Who notices the hand-holding between two characters in Section 8?
(a) Jinny.
(b) Bernard.
(c) Rhoda.
(d) Susan.

12. In Section 7, which two people does Susan name as those she "thinks sometimes of"?
(a) Neville and Percival.
(b) Percival and Rhoda.
(c) Jinny and Rhoda.
(d) Bernard and Louis.

13. Who is the first speaker in Section 7?
(a) Bernard.
(b) Rhoda.
(c) Susan.
(d) Neville.

14. By the end of Section 6, what can we say for sure about Neville's feelings towards Percival?
(a) That he felt Percival unduely held a position of high-regard.
(b) That he was in love with Percival.
(c) That he hated Percival.
(d) That Percival confused him.

15. In the beginning of Section 5, what state does Woolf describe the sun as being in?
(a) Its most merciful.
(b) Nearly its brightest.
(c) Its most uncompromising.
(d) Its dullest.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Section 5, Neville struggles to accomplish what simple act?

2. What is the dominant feature of the monologues during the middle of Section 8?

3. In Section 8, what happens between Rhoda and Louis?

4. Where are the characters gathering in Section 8?

5. What time of day does the passage at the beginning of Section 5 describe?

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