Mrs. Dalloway

This flexible-use quiz is designed for reading comprehension assessment and activity needs in classroom, home-schooling and other settings. Questions connect to the text’s plot, characters, and themes — and align with the content and chapter organization in the rest of this study guide. Use quizzes as pre-reading hooks, reading checks, discussion starters, entrance/exit “tickets,” small group activities, writing activities, and lessons on finding evidence and support in a text.

Depth of Knowledge Levels: Questions require respondents to demonstrate ability to: 

1. Recall and Understand Content (e.g., who, what, where, when) 
2. Apply and Analyze Ideas (e.g., how and why)

1. Why does Clarissa resent Miss Kilman? 

A) She makes her feel bad for being rich.

B) She does not teach her daughter well.

C) She looks down on the Dalloways as lower class.

D) She refused an invitation to Clarissa’s party.

2. Who is Sally Seton? 

A) a friend of Elizabeth’s

B) Richard’s lunch companion

C) Peter’s sister

D) a close friend from Clarissa’s youth

3. What troubles Rezia Smith about her husband Septimus? 

A) She suspects him of cheating on her.

B) She is no longer in love with him.

C) He demands that she bear him children.

D) He suffers from shell shock.

4. Which choice best characterizes Dr. Holmes and Dr. Bradshaw? 

A) They are insensitive and ill-equipped to deal with veterans’ mental health.

B) They are sympathetic to Septimus’s condition but too overstretched to help.