The Hours Quizzes

Think you’ve got your head wrapped around The Hours? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Whose thoughts does the narrator tap into in the following lines: "What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run"?


Laura Brown
Martha Stewart
Clarissa Vaughan
Virginia Woolf
Q. Which of the novel's characters once said, "Beauty is a whore, I like money better"?


Leonard Woolf
Richard Brown
Donald Trump
Louis Waters
Q. "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself" is the first line of which novel?


The Hours
Mrs. Dalloway
Lady Audley's Secret
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Q. Which character in The Hours sees visions that look like "coalescences of black fire […] dark and bright at the same time"?


Virginia Woolf
Laura Brown
Richard Brown
John Milton
Q. The following lines describe which one of the three protagonists: "She has aged dramatically, just this year, as if a layer of air has leaked out from under her skin. She's grown craggy and worn. She's begun to look as if she's carved from very porous, gray-white marble"?


Clarissa Vaughan
Virginia Woolf
Laura Brown
Madonna