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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the fate of the Ramsay's son, Andrew?
(a) He becomes a scholar.
(b) He becomes an artist.
(c) He goes into landscaping.
(d) He gets killed instantly in the war.

3. What is Lily's description of middle aged people?
(a) They are bold, and self-reliant, full of self-esteem.
(b) They are living through their children.
(c) They are living life to the fullest, now that youth is gone.
(d) They are cautious, furtive, and apprehensive with wrinkles between their eyes

4. What do the Ramsay's want Mrs. McNab to do?
(a) Get the summerhouse ready to be put up for sale.
(b) Not to take care of the house anymore
(c) Get the summerhouse ready for the new owners.
(d) Get the summerhouse ready for their arrival.

5. When do Mr. Ramsay, James, and Cam plan to leave for their trip to the Lighthouse?
(a) At low tide
(b) When the wind dies down
(c) When the wind picks up
(d) With the tide

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

7. Why does William Bankes detest the hole in Minta's stocking?
(a) He remembers the time he was too poor to buy new socks.
(b) He finds feet offensive.
(c) He believes it is a symbol of disorder, the loss of womanhood, and all the things he abhors.
(d) He feels Minta doesn't have the common sense to mend her stocking.

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

9. What does Lily want to do as the children come out of the house to go sailing to the Lighthouse?
(a) Go with the family
(b) Give sympathy to Mr. Ramsay
(c) Cry with Mr. Ramsay
(d) Run away from Mr. Ramsay

10. What is Mr. Ramsay's opinion of how women think?
(a) He believes women are more focused than men.
(b) He believes women are more intelligent than men.
(c) He believes women are vague, unable to dwell on any one thought.
(d) He believes women are deep thinkers.

11. What is the strange idea Lily has about Mr. Carmichael?
(a) She thinks he communicates with animals.
(b) She thinks he can read her thoughts, knowing the things she couldn't say.
(c) She thinks he communicates with the dead.
(d) She thinks he is just a raggedy old man with no original thoughts.

12. Why is Lily crying in anguish as she paints her picture?
(a) Lily realizes she will never know the meaning of life.
(b) Lily cannot seem to create the painting she wants.
(c) Lily is upset at Mr. Ramsay.
(d) Lily suddenly misses Mrs. Ramsay unbearably.

13. What does Mr. Ramsay expect from Lily when he sighs, full of grief?
(a) Conversation
(b) A walk along the beach
(c) Sympathy
(d) A smile

14. Why do Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay get into so many arguments?
(a) Mrs. Ramsay is impulsive and Mr. Ramsay is moody.
(b) Mrs. Ramsay is always insulting Mr. Ramsay.
(c) Mr. Ramsay is negative, contradicting Mrs. Ramsay all the time.
(d) They argue over the children.

15. How does Lily begin her painting?
(a) With slow, thought out lines
(b) With small dabs
(c) With angular lines
(d) With quick, strong strokes

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the atmosphere around the house as Mrs. McNab's work at the summerhouse is finished?

2. Why is Lily surprised that when she looks at her painting, she cannot see it?

3. Why does Mr. Ramsay get angry and bang out of the room?

4. What is the message in the letter that Mrs. McNab receives from the Ramsay children?

5. What are Minta's feelings about Paul's affair with another woman?

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