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The Hours

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Introduction:
""The Hours", by Michael Cunningham, is a gripping drama about three women joined together by a common thread-Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf."


1. Clarissa Vaughn steps out from her hopelessly tasteless apartment building to a new day bursting with morning sun. Clarissa intends to buy flowers for her friend Richard's party. What kind of flowers does Clarissa purchase that morning?
    yellow roses
    white lilies
    pink carnations
    red tulips


2. Virginia Woolf has awaken in her bedroom at Hogarth House bursting with fresh ideas for the novel she is writing, "Mrs. Dalloway". Virginia quietly creeps down the stairs so that her maid will not hear her and ruin her concentration with complaints. What is the name of Virginia's maid?
    Rita
    Rose
    Nelly
    Abigail


3. Laura Brown is sitting in bed reading Mrs. Dalloway. Today is her husband's birthday and she knows she should be downstairs making breakfast, but can't bring herself to do it in her pregnant state. Laura concludes that she will make it up to her husband by making what for him?
    A birthday cake
    a birthday card
    a sweater
    homemade fudge


4. Richard, a talented poet and author, is dying from what tragic illness?
    Liver Disease
    Cancer
    AIDS
    Meningitis


5. Virginia's sister is coming at 4 o'clock for tea. Virginia insists that there must be china tea and ginger because she has not had her sister over in more than a fortnight. What is the name of Virginia's sister?
    Velma
    Victoria
    Vanessa
    Valerie


6. Laura gets into her car and drives. She has left her son with Mrs. Latch and is driving nowhere in particular, just a place where she can sit and read her copy of Mrs. Dalloway. Eventually, Laura heads into L.A. and rents a room at which hotel?
    The Normandy
    Travelodge
    Holiday Inn
    Comfort Inn


7. After lunch with famous actor, Oliver St. Ives, Sally and Walter Hardy go into a little designer boutique. As Sally watches Walter look at silk blouses for his boyfriend she is overcome with an urge to be with Clarissa. Sally tells Walter that she must leave as he is paying for the blouse. What color blouse did Walter buy?
    tangerine
    forest green
    plum
    navy blue


8. The headaches have started again and the voices continue in the back of Virginia's head. She continues walking to the river thinking of Leonard, Vanessa, and the letters she left for them. She is sure of what she must do. Virginia picks up and object and places it in the pocket of her heavy coat and wades into the river. What object did Virginia place in her pocket?
    a stone
    a chunk of bark
    a flower
    a marble


9. Clarissa was with Richard just moments ago and now he is gone, he is dead. Richard took his own life in fear of the hours that lay ahead of him in his illness. How did Richard commit suicide?
    hanged himself
    took sleeping pills
    jumped from his window
    shot himself


10. The most important thing about this piece of literature is the connections. Virginia Woolf wrote Mrs. Dalloway, Clarissa Vaughn lived the life of Mrs. Dalloway and Laura Brown was reading Mrs. Dalloway, a novel that inspired her to be more then she was. There is still one more connection however. What is the connection between Richard and Laura Brown?
    teacher and student
    brother and sister
    mother and son
    old friends


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