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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Lighthouse Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Mr. Bankes enjoying the dinner party?
(a) He is enjoying the conversation at the table.
(b) He wishes he were home alone, working.
(c) He is glad he accepted Mrs. Ramsay's invitation.
(d) He wishes he could eat there every night.

2. How does Mrs. Ramsay feel young men regard her?
(a) With reverence and trust
(b) As an old, stupid woman
(c) As a senile lump
(d) As if she were invisible

3. Why is Mr. Ramsay angry with his wife, cursing her?
(a) She laughed at his poetry recitation.
(b) She dropped his book in the water at the beach.
(c) For giving James false hope about going on the trip to the Lighthouse
(d) She burned dinner.

4. Why does Mrs. McNab pick a bunch of flowers from the Ramsay's garden?
(a) She wants to cheer up her own house.
(b) She wants to give them to her daughter
(c) She thinks the house is going to be sold and the family will never return.
(d) She figures the Ramsay's will never know

5. What is Lily feeling as she sits drinking coffee on her first morning back at the Ramsay's?
(a) Nothing
(b) Excitement
(c) Foreboding
(d) Sadness

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Nancy want to go on the walk with Paul and Minta?

2. What does Lily contemplate as the dinner winds down, and people leave the table?

3. What helps Mr. Ramsay get his mind off his sorrow?

4. How does Lily see the blank canvas before her?

5. Which one of Mr. Ramsay's daughters does he escort down the aisle to be married?

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