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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Time Passes Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lily tell William Bankes about Mr. Ramsay?
(a) Mr. Ramsay is afraid of the dark.
(b) Mr. Ramsay frightens her because of his mood swings.
(c) Mr. Ramsay cries at night while in bed.
(d) Mr. Ramsay likes to swim in the dark.

2. What does Mrs. Ramsay regret will happen when her children are grown?
(a) Her children to have to experience all the pain, suffering, and death involved in living life.
(b) Her children will forget about her, leaving her alone.
(c) Her children will treat her like an old lady.
(d) Her children will not need her anymore.

3. What is the thing Mr. Bankes and Lily Briscoe see that they are not supposed to?
(a) A present James made for his mother.
(b) The children pulling up Mrs. Ramsay's flowers
(c) Mrs. Ramsay crying
(d) Mr. Ramsay reciting is poetry.

4. What is Mrs. Ramsay sorry for after she tells James they cannot go to the Lighthouse?
(a) That she raises his hopes for the trip
(b) That they hadn't gone before
(c) That she ever told Mr. Ramsay they were going
(d) That she ever offered to bring him there in the first place

5. What is Mr. Ramsay thinks as he watches his wife reading?
(a) He thinks she is a good mother.
(b) He thinks she is more intelligent than he is.
(c) He thinks she could be a philosopher.
(d) He thinks she does not understand a word she is reading.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Prue feel about her mother as she sees her standing on the stairs?

2. What did Mr. Tansley tell Lily at one time about women's artistic abilities?

3. How does Mrs. Ramsay try to lift James' spirits after his father's negative comments

4. How does Mrs. Ramsay clean her mind from all the odds of the day after dinner is over?

5. What is the condition of the house in the heat of the summer?

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