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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Is Charles Tansley excited about the conversation the women are having
(a) He is amused by the women's bantering.
(b) He is outraged at the conversation, leaving the table.
(c) He thinks the women's conversation is inane and unimportant.
(d) He loves to listen to the women's silly conversation.

3. Why does Mrs. Ramsay feel she can return to her dreamland of twenty years ago in the Manning's drawing room?
(a) Because no one is paying attention to her
(b) Because Lily got a conversation going with Mr. Tansley
(c) Because dinner is over
(d) Because she is sick of her guests

4. How does Mrs. Ramsay feel about her husband as she looks at him across the table?
(a) She thinks about his brilliance.
(b) She thinks about how much she loves him.
(c) She thinks about what a wonderful father he is.
(d) She doesn't know how she ever felt any affection for him.

5. What is the image the author gives of Mrs. Ramsay as she looks at her dinner guests?
(a) As a queen standing over her subjects, accepting their devotion
(b) As a doting hostess
(c) As a nervous dog
(d) As an old crone

6. How does Mrs. Ramsay clean her mind from all the odds of the day after dinner is over?
(a) She watches Lily paint
(b) She works in her garden
(c) She reads
(d) She sings to the children

7. How does Mr. Ramsay react to being seen reciting poetry by Lily and Mr. Bankes?
(a) He doesn't care.
(b) He is furious.
(c) He wants to recite more to them.
(d) He is happy someone heard his recitation

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

9. What does Mr. Bankes call Mr. Ramsay?
(a) A brilliant philosopher
(b) An abusive husband
(c) A terrible father
(d) A hypocrite

10. Why does Mr. Ramsay become annoyed with Mrs. Ramsay, thinking he will go off alone?
(a) All she talks about are flowers.
(b) She keeps talking about going to the Lighthouse.
(c) She doesn't want Andrew to go to college.
(d) She won't share her thoughts with him

11. What was the worst moment of Paul's life?
(a) Losing his mother and father
(b) Losing his job
(c) Being rejected by a college
(d) Asking Minta to marry him

12. How does Mrs. Ramsay feel after giving Mr. Ramsay the sympathy he needs?
(a) Both physically and mentally exhausted
(b) Happy and carefree
(c) Flamboyant and flighty
(d) Needed and fulfilled

13. Where does Mrs. Ramsay wish she could go with Paul and Minta?
(a) On a walk
(b) To town
(c) To the picture show
(d) To the beach

14. Why is Mrs. Ramsay so annoyed with Mr. Tansley, thinking him hateful?
(a) He tells James that he cannot go to the Lighthouse.
(b) He breaks her favorite necklace.
(c) He slaps James.
(d) He insults her cooking.

15. What does Prue feel about her mother as she sees her standing on the stairs?
(a) She is annoyed with her mother's overbearing nature.
(b) She wishes she did not have a mother.
(c) Prue feels she is lucky to have her mother and she will never grow up, and never leave home.
(d) She thinks her mother looks old.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mrs. Ramsay think Mr. Ramsay is different from other people?

2. What is Mr. Ramsay doing on the terrace as Mrs. Ramsay sits inside looking at catalogues?

3. What is Mrs. Ramsay sorry for after she tells James they cannot go to the Lighthouse?

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

5. Why is Mr. Tansley insulted when Lily asks him to take her to the Lighthouse?

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