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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Ramsay do when she sees her husband looking at her?
(a) She ignores him.
(b) She frowns at him.
(c) She insults him.
(d) She calls to him.

2. What kind of lives do Prue, Nancy, and Rose want to live?
(a) Lives just like their mothers
(b) Lives filled with children
(c) Lives as missionaries
(d) Lives different from Mrs. Ramsay, a wilder life, not taking care of men

3. As Mrs. Ramsay sits at the head of the dinner table, what is she contemplating?
(a) She wonders what will become of her children.
(b) She wonders what she has accomplished, feeling her life is over.
(c) She wonders why dinner is late.
(d) She thinks about leaving her husband.

4. Why is Mr. Ramsay angry with his wife, cursing her?
(a) For giving James false hope about going on the trip to the Lighthouse
(b) She laughed at his poetry recitation.
(c) She dropped his book in the water at the beach.
(d) She burned dinner.

5. Which of her children does Mrs. Ramsay want to stay young?
(a) Andrew and Prue
(b) James and Cam
(c) Nancy and Cam
(d) Charles and James

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mrs. Ramsay feel she can return to her dreamland of twenty years ago in the Manning's drawing room?

2. What is the only thing Mr. Tansley has to count on?

3. Why does Mr. Ramsay become angry with Augustus during dinner?

4. What did Mr. Tansley tell Lily at one time about women's artistic abilities?

5. What does Mr. Bankes think Mr. Tansley feels about the people around the table?

Short Essay Questions

1. Although Mrs. Ramsay describes the summerhouse they are renting as shabby, what does she like about being there?

2. What are James' thoughts of his mother as he waits at the tiller for the breeze to fill the sails?

3. What does Mr. Tansley do to predict the weather for the outing to the lighthouse?

4. Lily wants to wake up Mr. Carmichael and talk to him about all the questions she has of life, death, and even Mrs. Ramsay. Why does she decide against waking him?

5. What does Paul vow to do after Minta loses her grandmother's brooch?

6. As spring arrives, does it bring any joy to the summerhouse? Explain

7. What is the message in the note that Mrs. McNabb receives?

8. What does Mr. Ramsay ponder is his fate as he looks out at the bay beneath the edge of the lawn?

9. Summarize the conversation between Mr. Bankes and Lily Briscoe as they are strolling together.

10. What is the description Mrs. Ramsay gives of Lily Briscoe?

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