1. What does Clarissa set out to purchase in the novel’s opening scene?

 A bag of ice
 Flowers
 Champagne
 Fairy lamps

2. What object does Peter Walsh always have with him?

 A banjo
 A flashlight
 A silver comb
 A pocketknife

3. What color is Clarissa Dalloway’s party dress?

 Lavender
 Peach
 Green
 Red

4. In which month does the novel take place?

 June
 October
 December
 April

5. Which male character proposes marriage to Clarissa and is refused?

 Hugh Whitbread
 Septimus Warren Smith
 Joseph Breitkopf
 Peter Walsh

6. Septimus feels human nature is essentially evil. Which character does he

claim embodies “human nature”?”

 Lucrezia
 Richard Dalloway
 Dr. Holmes
 Doris Kilman

7. Which line from a Shakespearean play is repeated several times throughout

the novel?

 “Out, damned spot! Out, I say!—”

 “Fear no more the heat o’ the sun / Nor the furious winter’s rages”
 “If music be the food of love, play on”
 “But, soft! what light through yonder window / breaks?”

8. What is Lucrezia Smith’s profession?

 Schoolteacher
 Cellist
 Hat-maker
 Florist

9. Septimus goes to the doctor because he is suffering from what illness?

 Shell shock
 A toothache
 Back problems
 The flu

10. Why does Lady Bruton invite Richard Dalloway and Hugh Whitbread to her
home for lunch?

 She wants their advice on redecorating the parlor

 Richard and Hugh keep her in stitches with their crazy senses of humor
 She wants their help writing a letter to the editor concerning emigration to
Canada
 She wants to warn them about Peter Walsh’s arrival in the city

11. When Richard returns from having lunch at Lady Bruton’s, what does he
bring home to Clarissa?

 A little chow dog

 A bouquet of roses
 A fountain pen
 A Jacobean mug

12. Who does Clarissa compare herself to when she returns home to her attic
room?

 A marathon runner
 A princess
 A prisoner
 A nun

13. What was the most exquisite moment of Clarissa’s life?

 When she got married

 When she met Hugh Whitbread in the street
 When Sally Seton kissed her on the lips
 When Elizabeth agreed to wear her pink dress to the party

14. Where does Peter Walsh live?

 Boston
 India
 London
 Sweden

15. Where did Clarissa spend her summers as a girl?

 Bourton
 Edinburgh
 Milan
 Calcutta

16. What is the name of Peter’s fiancée?

 Marigold
 Lily
 Lucy
 Daisy
 17. What does Clarissa have in her hands when Peter Walsh makes an
unexpected visit?

 A tambourine
 Scissors
 A book
 A spatula

18. What illness has Clarissa recently recovered from?

 Influenza
 Measles
 A nervous breakdown
 Typhoid

19. When Peter Walsh falls asleep in Regent’s Park, what does he dream
about?

 A solitary traveler
 A giant squid
 His mother’s handbag
 An exam

20. Whom does Septimus hear speaking to him from behind trees and
screens?

 Mrs. Filmer
 Lucrezia
 Clarissa Dalloway
 Evans

21. What does Sir William Bradshaw, one of Septimus’s doctors, believe in
most strongly?

 Yoga
 God
 Proportion
 A protein diet

22. Who does Clarissa see twice in the window across from her own?
 A calico cat
 An old woman
 Septimus Warren Smith
 A young man smoking a pipe

23. Where does Doris Kilman go after having tea with Elizabeth?

 Regent’s Park
 Westminster Abbey
 Clarissa’s house
 The Salvation Army shop

24. Which shocking action did Sally Seton take at Bourton?

 She smoked opium at dinner

 She brought a pony into the breakfast room
 She ran naked through the hallway
 She threw away all of Clarissa’s father’s books

25. What does Lady Bradshaw tell Clarissa at the Dalloways’ party?

 That Septimus committed suicide

 That she’s taking a holiday to Greece
 That Sir William has killed her soul
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