TEST - 27 - Mrs. Dalloway, Look Back in Anger

In Mrs Dalloway, Which product-name does the skywriting plane gradually spell out above London, drawing a crowd’s gaze?

• OXO
• KREEMO
• ENO’S
• LYONS

In Mrs Dalloway, Clarissa buys flowers at which shop, where she’s greeted by “button-faced” Miss Pym?

• Floris of Jermyn Street
• Debenham & Freebody
• Mulberry’s
• Dalloway & Co.

In Mrs Dalloway, Identify the speaker/source of the line that echoes in Clarissa’s mind: “Fear no more the heat o’ the sun / Nor the furious winter’s rages.”

• Sir William Bradshaw, lecturing on “Proportion”
• Shakespeare’s Cymbeline
• A hymn sung by the old woman in the park
• Peter Walsh’s notebook

In Mrs Dalloway, “The doors would be taken off their hinges; Rumpelmayer’s men were coming.” This detail points to:

• A removal firm arriving to clear out Bourton
• Caterers preparing Clarissa’s party
• Government clerks arriving for Richard
• The Bradshaws calling on the Dalloways

In Mrs Dalloway, The famous time-marker phrase Woolf repeats is:

• “The iron hours rang”
• “The leaden circles dissolved in the air”
• “The bronze strokes shivered”
• “The gilt chimes scattered”

In Mrs Dalloway, The motorcar with drawn blinds that startles Londoners makes Clarissa think it could be:

• The Archbishop of Canterbury
• The Queen
• The Prime Minister
• The Prince of Wales

In Mrs Dalloway, At Lady Bruton’s lunch, Richard and Hugh assist chiefly with:

• A petition to Parliament about pensions
• A letter to The Times on emigration to Canada
• A fundraising appeal for a hospital
• Drafting a speech on veterans’ welfare

In Mrs Dalloway, Lady Bruton’s secretary—who detests Hugh’s pomposity—is:

• Miss Pym
• Mrs Filmer
• Milly (Miss) Brush
• Ellie Henderson

In Mrs Dalloway, Who brings news of Septimus’s death to Clarissa’s party?

• Sir William Bradshaw
• Lady Bradshaw
• Dr. Holmes
• Mrs. Filmer

In Mrs Dalloway, The episode of Bourton that culminates in Clarissa’s “most exquisite moment” occurs:

• In Westminster Abbey
• By the fountain in the garden at Bourton with Sally Seton
• On the steps of St. Paul’s
• On a bench in Regent’s Park