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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does Mr. Ramsay ask Cam to make her smile?
(a) When is she going to the beach?
(b) What is she going to name her puppy?
(c) What is she going to be when she grows up?
(d) Where is she going to ride her new scooter?

2. Where does the only light come from in the darkness of the house?
(a) The moon
(b) A neighbor's lantern
(c) A distant fire
(d) The Lighthouse

3. 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.

4. Why is Lily surprised that when she looks at her painting, she cannot see it?
(a) A swarm of gnats fly in her eyes.
(b) She didn't realize that her hat had fallen over her eyes.
(c) She suddenly loses vision in both eyes.
(d) She realizes that she is crying, but didn't think she felt anything for Mrs. Ramsay.

5. What does Mr. Ramsay do while they are sailing to the Lighthouse?
(a) He argues with James.
(b) He reads a book.
(c) He hangs his hand in the water.
(d) He steers the boat.

6. Which one of Mr. Ramsay's daughters does he escort down the aisle to be married?
(a) Rose
(b) Nancy
(c) Cam
(d) Prue

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

8. How does Mrs. Ramsay react to the arguments?
(a) She becomes tired, resentful, and silent.
(b) She talks about Mr. Ramsay behind his back.
(c) She promises herself never to forgive Mr. Ramsay
(d) She cries hysterically in bed

9. After Mrs. McNab locks the door to the house, how does the author describe it?
(a) Like an abandoned shack in the highlands
(b) Like a prehistoric, dark cave
(c) Like a relic of another age
(d) Like an empty shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains

10. What helps Mr. Ramsay get his mind off his sorrow?
(a) Talking about his boots
(b) Looking at Lily's painting
(c) Walking on the beach
(d) Playing cricket

11. What adventure does Cam invent to escape Mr. Ramsay's and James' attitudes?
(a) She imagines she is on a deserted island.
(b) She imagines she is in a sinking ship.
(c) She imagines she is with her mother again.
(d) She imagines she is flying with a seagull.

12. Why does Lily think life is aimless, chaotic, and unreal?
(a) Because she is thinking of the deaths of Mrs. Ramsay, Prue and Andrew
(b) Because James hates her
(c) Because Mr. Ramsay was fired from his job
(d) Because her painting are not be accepted by the art community

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

14. How does Lily feel while she is painting?
(a) A part of this world
(b) Drawn out of this world
(c) Hiding in reality
(d) Tied to reality

15. Who does Mrs. McNab get to help her clean up the Ramsay's house?
(a) William Bankes
(b) Lily Briscoe
(c) Mrs. Bast and her son, George
(d) Mr. Carmichael

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the strange idea Lily has about Mr. Carmichael?

2. How does Lily describe Mr. Ramsay as she looks out at the bay?

3. Why is Lily crying in anguish as she paints her picture?

4. How does Mr. Ramsay look at Lily?

5. What becomes of Mrs. Ramsay?

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