Q. What poem does Mr. Ramsay recite to himself at the beach?
a) Dover Beach
b) The Collar
c) The Charge of the Light Brigade
d) Maud
Q. Who chooses Mrs. Ramsay’s jewelry for the dinner party?
a) Emily
b) Rose
c) Mabel
d) Clarissa
Q. What was the name of the group of artists and intellectuals to which Woolf belonged?
a) The Bloomsbury Group
b) The Soho Group
c) The Magdalenes
d) The Whiteacres
Q. In what year was To the Lighthouse published?
a) 1882
b) 1905
c) 1927
d) 1941
Q. Which character does Mrs. Ramsay hope Lily will marry?
a) Charles Tansley
b) Augustus Carmichael
c) Andrew
d) William Bankes
Q. What revives interest in Mr. Carmichael’s poetry?
a) His reading of a poem on BBC radio
b) His new volume of poems published during World War I
c) His trial
d) His death
Q. How does Prue Ramsay die?
a) She is a civilian casualty of the war
b) She is stricken by cancer
c) She is stricken by an illness related to childbirth
d) She falls from a train
Q. What does Mr. Ramsay most often want from Mrs. Ramsay and why?
a) Sympathy; he is full of professional anxiety
b) Food; he has an enormous appetite and she is a masterful cook
c) Money; he is lazy and spends lavishly
d) Advice; he trusts Mrs. Ramsay to guide his career
Q. Critical consensus holds that the character of Mrs. Ramsay is based on whom?
a) Woolf’s sister
b) Woolf’s friend Clarissa from Cambridge
c) Vita Sackville-West
d) Woolf’s mother
Q. Who accompanies Mr. Ramsay to the lighthouse at the novel’s end?
a) James and Mrs. Ramsay
b) James and Cam
c) Minta Doyle and Paul Rayley
d) James and Lily Briscoe
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