Mrs. dalloway
by virginia woolf (excerpt)

she felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged. she sliced like a knife through everything; at the same time was outside, looking on. she had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day. not that she thought herself clever, or much out of the ordinary. how she had got through life on the few twigs of knowledge fräulein daniels gave them she could not think. she knew nothing; no language, no history; she scarcely read a book now, except memoirs in bed; and yet to her it was absolutely absorbing; all this; the cabs passing; and she would not say of peter, she would not say of herself, i am this, i am that.

question 17 of 20
instructions: select the correct answer.
what modernist theme does the excerpt highlight?
a the rejection of tradition
b meaning in the absence of god
c skepticism about absolute truths
d the search for self
e the question of reality