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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Lily describe Mr. Ramsay as she looks out at the bay?
(a) Aging gracefully
(b) As a distinguished philosopher
(c) Looking younger than he is
(d) As a very old man

2. What are Minta's feelings about Paul's affair with another woman?
(a) She is irate, throwing Paul out of the house.
(b) She is devastated by the affair.
(c) She welcomes it because it mended their marriage, so they could be friends.
(d) She vows never to speak to Paul again.

3. What is Lily's attitude toward Mr. Ramsay?
(a) She finds him difficult and unable to praise him.
(b) She thinks he is brilliant and friendly.
(c) She thinks he is handsome and debonair.
(d) She detests him.

4. What messages breathed from sea to shore at the ramsay's house?
(a) Messages of sorrow
(b) Messages of excitement
(c) Messages of peace
(d) Messages of foreboding

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

6. What does James imagine himself doing to his father as they sit in the boat waiting for the breeze to pick up?
(a) Stabbing his father in the heart
(b) Knocking his book into the water
(c) Throwing him overboard
(d) Running over and hugging him

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

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

9. What becomes of Mrs. Ramsay?
(a) She abandons her children
(b) She dies suddenly
(c) She becomes a famous writer
(d) She leaves Mr. Ramsay

10. Why does James think he is powerless to move as he sits at the tiller of the boat?
(a) He is afraid of falling overboard.
(b) He's afraid of rocking the boat.
(c) He doesn't want to get his father's attention.
(d) He imagines his father tied him there with a rope.

11. What is it that bothers Lily so she cannot paint?
(a) She regrets giving sympathy to Mr. Ramsay.
(b) She is in love with Mr. Ramsay.
(c) She had not offered Mr. Ramsay the sympathy he needed.
(d) She is in love with Mr. Carmichael.

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

13. What does Lily think offended people about Mrs. Ramsay?
(a) Her callousness and selfishness
(b) Her superior demeanor
(c) Her beauty and her giving in to her husbands whims
(d) Her constant refusal to help her husband

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mrs. Ramsay do on the beach while Lily paints and Charles skips stones?

3. What does Lily think will happen if she shouts loud enough?

4. What adventure does Cam invent to escape Mr. Ramsay's and James' attitudes?

5. Why can't Lily paint after she sets up her easel?

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