Mrs. Dalloway: Study Help: Quiz

1: Mrs. Dalloway takes place over what span of time?

a. One hour

b. One day

c. One week

d. One year

2: Where is the novel set?

a. London

b. Shropshire

c. New York City

d. Dublin

3: At the beginning of the novel, what errand does Clarissa run?

a. Calling on Peter Walsh, who is back in town

b. Buying flowers for her party

c. Having her green silk dress altered

d. Spying on her husband, as he goes to a luncheon with Lady Millicent Bruton

4: What did Peter Walsh tell Clarissa she would eventually become?

a. A bored housewife

b. A great novelist

c. An expatriot living in America

d. The perfect hostess

5: Who spends time with Clarissa’s daughter and makes Clarissa feel fearful?

a. Lady Bruton

b. Sally Seton

c. Doris Kilman

d. Septimus Smith

6: What is Clarissa doing when Peter Walsh unexpectedly drops in on her?

a. Instructing the staff on the evening’s menu

b. Arranging the flowers

c. Lying down in the attic

d. Mending her green dress

7: Following his appointment with Lady Bruton, what does Richard Dalloway vow he will do, but not carry through on?

a. Tell Clarissa that he loves her

b. Tell Doris Kilman that her tutorial services are no longer needed

c. Take a stroll through the park and contemplate the choices that he’s made in his life

d. Ask Clarissa for a divorce

8: Why are the Bradshaws late to Clarissa’s party?

a. Lady Bradshaw vacillated between which dress to wear.

b. Sir William was called in to attend to Septimus’s suicide.

c. The hospital was understaffed and Sir William Bradshaw had to fill in.

d. They had gotten into a terrible fight.

9: What sound terrifies Septimus Smith while he is out on the street?

a. A gunshot during a thwarted bank robbery

b. A cat fight

c. A car backfiring

d. The sound of a woman whose voice resembles his dead mother’s

10: Clarissa still treasures the memory of a warm, impulsive kiss given to her many years ago by whom?

a. Peter

b. Sally

c. Richard

d. Sir Bradshaw

11: Who does Clarissa remember as saying, “I prefer men to cauliflowers?”

a. Hugh Whitbread

b. Septimus Smith

c. Richard Dalloway

d. Peter Walsh

12: Whose final words in the novel are “I’ll give it you?”

a. Lady Bruton

b. Peter Walsh

c. Clarissa Dalloway

d. Septimus Smith

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