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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. What is Lily's opinion of the dead?
(a) She feels the dead are better off than the living.
(b) She thinks the dead can grant her wishes.
(c) She pities the dead because they can be ignored, and are at the living's mercy.
(d) She fears the dead in the middle of the night.

2. Why does Mr. Ramsay get angry and bang out of the room?
(a) Lily is being annoying.
(b) James and Cam are arguing.
(c) James and Cam are not ready for the trip, and Nancy forgot the sandwiches.
(d) The weather is looking ominous

3. Who is the only person Lily doesn't mind looking at her painting?
(a) Mrs. Ramsay
(b) James
(c) William Bankes
(d) Mr. Ramsay

4. What is Lily's view of Mr. Bankes?
(a) She sees him as a generous, heroic man
(b) She sees him as a moody widower.
(c) She sees him as a lonely, old man.
(d) She sees him as a self-centered old man.

5. How does Lily feel as she sits alone in the Ramsay's house?
(a) She feels like a sister to Nancy.
(b) She feels like a member of the family.
(c) She feels cut off from people, with no attachments there.
(d) She feels like a daughter to Mr. Ramsay.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Paul, Minta, Andrew, and Nancy do, once they reach the beach?

2. How does Lily see Mr. Ramsay's face?

3. What is Mr. Ramsay thinks as he watches his wife reading?

4. What is William Bankes' assessment of Lily Briscoe?

5. What is Lily's opinion about human relationships?

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