Question

in what sense does the selection from mrs. dalloway exhibit a nonlinear narrative structure?
it contains a dream sequence as well as real events.
its sentences are sometimes incomplete.
its events occur in chronological order.
it includes flashbacks to earlier events in her life.

question 17
1 pts
which excerpt from mrs. dalloway best illustrates the answer to the question above?
clarissa was positive, a particular hush ... ; an indescribable pause; a suspense (but that might be her heart, affected, they said, by influenza) before big ben strikes. there! out it boomed.
how fresh, how calm, stiller than this of course, the air was in the early morning; ... chill and sharp and yet (for a girl of eighteen as she then was) ... feeling as she did, standing there at the open window, that something awful was about to happen....
a charming woman, scrope purvis thought her (knowing her as one does know people who live next door to one in westminster).... there she perched, never seeing him, waiting to cross, very upright.
peter walsh said, “musing among the vegetables?”—was that it?—“i prefer men to cauliflowers”—was that it? he must have said it at breakfast one morning when she had gone out onto the terrace—peter walsh.

Explanation:

First Question (about nonlinear narrative in Mrs. Dalloway):

To determine the nonlinear narrative, we analyze each option:

• "It contains a dream sequence as well as real events": Mrs. Dalloway’s nonlinearity is not defined by dream vs. real events. Eliminate.
• "Its sentences are sometimes incomplete": Sentence structure does not define narrative nonlinearity. Eliminate.
• "Its events occur in chronological order": This describes a linear narrative, opposite of what we need. Eliminate.
• "It includes flashbacks to earlier events in her life": Flashbacks disrupt chronological order, a key feature of nonlinear narrative. This matches.

We need an excerpt with a flashback (to match the first answer).

• First option: Describes present-time events (Big Ben, Clarissa’s state) – no flashback. Eliminate.
• Second option: "for a girl of eighteen as she then was" – this is a flashback to Clarissa’s youth, showing a past event within the narrative. This matches the "flashbacks" idea from the first answer.
• Third option: Describes present interactions (Scrope Purvis’s thoughts, Clarissa waiting) – no flashback. Eliminate.
• Fourth option: Focuses on Peter Walsh’s musing about a past comment, but the structure is more about recollection than a flashback to a scene. The second option’s explicit flashback to her 18-year-old self is clearer.

Answer:

D. It includes flashbacks to earlier events in her life.

Second Question (excerpt illustrating the answer above):