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Virginia Woolf

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When was Virginia Woolf born?

a)

1882

b)

1904

c)

1922

d)

1941

2.

What work wasn't written by Virginia Woolf?

a)

To the Lighthouse

b)

Orlando

c)

The Waves

d)

Nostromo

3.

What's the name of the circle of intellectuals Virginia Woolf founded?

a)

The Hyde Park Group

b)

The Serpentine Group

c)

The Bloomsbury Group

d)

The Sackville Group

4.

In Virginia Woolf's novels the point of view is always that of the main character.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

Mrs Dalloway takes places on 16th June 1904

a)

True

b)

False

6.

At the beginning of the novel Mrs Dalloway is going to Bond Street to meet her friend Sally

a)

True

b)

False

7.

Clarissa Dalloway

a)

lost a friend during the war.

b)

is a lady in her thirties married to a MP.

c)

was influenced by a possesive father.

d)

never imposes restrictions on her feelings.

8.

Who was the man Mrs Dalloway once loved?

a)

Septimus Smith

b)

Peter Walsh

c)

William Bradshaw

d)

Mr Bruton

9.

Septimus has an interview with Sir William Bradshaw, who suggests he should go on holiday

a)

True

b)

False

10.

At the time of the story society was rapidly changing under king George V.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

What are colled those moments of intensity which illuminate our lives in Woolf's literary technique?

a)

Instants of vision

b)

Interior monologues

c)

Moments of being

d)

Flashes of perception

12.

What thinker described time as a duration?

a)

Albert Einstein

b)

Henri Bergson

c)

Sigmund Freud

d)

Henry James

13.

The description of Mrs Dalloway consists of a succession of _________ thoughts, memories and sense impressions

a)

fixed

b)

fragmented

c)

disintegrated

d)

inadequate

14.

At the end of the novel "Mrs Dalloway"...

a)

Peter dies

b)

Septimus dies

c)

Clarissa dies

d)

Sally dies

15.

Virginia Woolf

a)

refused to use flashbacks and association of ideas.

b)

used the omniscient narrator.

c)

believed that life was like a luminous halo surronding people's consciousness.

d)

thought that the events narrated had a huge importance in the story