SOCIAL PERFORMACE

Question 1

I.5

Answer 1

It was rather that he had preserved a certain social detachment, a happy air of viewing the show objectively, of having points of contact outside the great gilt cage in which they were all huddled for the mob to gape at.

Question 2

I.1

Answer 2

she still had the art of blushing at the right time

Question 3

I.6

Answer 3

and he said to himself, somewhat cruelly, that even her weeping was an art.

Question 4

II.1 (1st)

Answer 4

a sublime stage-setting forgotten in a hurried shifting of scenes—as he took in the whole outspread effect of light and leisure, … tableau

Question 5

II.1 (2nd)

Answer 5

The ladies stood in unrelated attitudes calculated to isolate their effects, and the men hung about them as irrelevantly as stage heroes whose tailors are named in the programme.

Question 6

I.8

Answer 6

It was the kind of scene in which Lily had often pictured herself as taking the principal part,

Question 7

II.3

Answer 7

This time Lily felt sure that a cue was being pressed on her;

Question 8

II.4

Answer 8

No one looked at her, no one seemed aware of her presence; she was probing the very depths of insignificance.