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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does James remember as they all sit in the hot sun on the boat?
(a) He remembers his father taking his mother away from him.
(b) He remembers his father telling him that it would rain and he wouldn't be able to go to the lighthouse.
(c) He remembers the arguments his parents used to have.
(d) He remembers cutting pictures out of a catalogue.

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

3. What is Lily's description of the Rayleys?
(a) They are well off with no cares in the world.
(b) They are happily married and full of energy
(c) They are adventurous and full of life.
(d) Minta is garish, flamboyant, and careless. Paul is tired and pale.

4. What does Lily discover about the meaning of life?
(a) She never finds it, but has small revelations
(b) She asks Mr. Ramsay for the meaning of life.
(c) She finds the meaning of life at the summerhouse.
(d) She finds the meaning of life in her art.

5. What is the condition of the house now that ten years have passed?
(a) Mrs. McNab kept the house spotless.
(b) The wood floor is in good condition and the walls are solid
(c) Vagrants live in the house.
(d) The books are moldy, plaster is falling, and the pipes are clogged.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does James think he is powerless to move as he sits at the tiller of the boat?

2. What work does George do at the summerhouse?

3. How does Lily feel while she is painting?

4. As the Ramsay's approach the Lighthouse, the waves break upon the rocks. What does Woolf compare these waves to?

5. Where does Lily imagine her painting will end up as time passes?

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