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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 Bernard doing at the beginning of Section 3?
(a) Meeting Susan.
(b) Writing a letter.
(c) Eating dinner.
(d) Talking to Percival.
2. Who shifts in his seat in Section 2 so that he might catch a glimpse of Percival?
(a) Neville.
(b) Bernard.
(c) Louis.
(d) Dr. Crane.
3. In Section 2, Miss Lambert sits under a picture of whom?
(a) Queen Alexandra.
(b) Queen Victoria.
(c) King James I.
(d) Queen Elizabeth.
4. Who begins Section 3?
(a) Bernard.
(b) Susan.
(c) Louis.
(d) Rhoda.
5. In Section 3, what common action does Jinny find "strange"?
(a) Eating.
(b) Exercising.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Crying.
Short Answer Questions
1. To which poet does Bernard compare himself to the point of attempting imitation in Section 3?
2. Who is the first character to speak?
3. Who provides an elaborate description of bathing at the end of the day?
4. Who "only understands cries of love, hate, rage and pain"?
5. Who remarks, "The world is entire, and I am outside of it . . ."?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe how each character is presented in Section 1.
2. Bernard is clearly becoming the most central of the six characters. Describe his characteristics as he appears in Section 3.
3. What is the significance of having each character introduce themselves by identifying a specific image in Section 1?
4. Describe how Neville and Bernard are different as they appear in Section 3.
5. Why does Woolf use a line or two of monologue rather than dialogue to introduce the children in Section 1?
6. Which of the boys seems to have the strongest attachment to Percival? Please provide some evidence in your answer.
7. Why is Bernard's announcement of his engagement in Section 4 significant?
8. Why is Susan so distressed after she saw Jinny kiss Louis?
9. Briefly analyze how the characters have developed as a group in the first two sections of the novel.
10. Characterize how Louis expresses his differences from Neville and Bernard in Section 3.
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