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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?
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?
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?
4. Richard, a talented poet and author, is dying from what tragic illness?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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