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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 feel the Ramsays are flooded with?
(a) Hatred
(b) Friendship
(c) Indifference
(d) Being in love

2. What is it in human beings that nature looks upon complacently?
(a) Human's striving for success
(b) Human family life
(c) Human relationships
(d) Human misery, meanness, and his torture

3. What do the gulls, flowers, trees, and the earth itself seem to be saying on a summer evening at the Ramsay's house?
(a) Life is painful
(b) Good triumphs, happiness prevails, and order rules
(c) Sadness is everywhere
(d) Evil is rampant in the world

4. How does Prue's pregnancy progress?
(a) Prue is healthy and happy for the nine months.
(b) Prue stays in bed but delivery goes well.
(c) Prue has morning sickness for nine months.
(d) Prue dies from complications.

5. Who is the only person that goes to the Ramsay's house?
(a) Mrs. McNab
(b) William Bankes
(c) Lily Briscoe
(d) Augustus Carmichael

Short Answer Questions

1. While the summerhouse is deserted, what is the weather like?

2. Who does Mrs. Ramsay think are getting engaged?

3. How does Mrs. Ramsay determine which necklace to wear to dinner?

4. What is the thing Mr. Bankes and Lily Briscoe see that they are not supposed to?

5. Where does Mrs. Ramsay wish she could go with Paul and Minta?

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