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ABC's of Woolf's "To the Lighthouse"

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Introduction:
"This quiz asks ten basic questions about what happens in Virginia Woolf's much discussed novel "To the Lighthouse.""


1. Who is the character who is trying to finish a painting but keeps saying that she can't get the painting right?
    Mrs. Ramsay
    Lily Briscoe
    Cam
    Prue


2. What does famous biographer/scholar Mr Ramsay fear that he will never get to?
    The Letter R
    Manchester
    The Panama Canal
    The figurative dimension


3. After World War I is over, the Ramsay summer house is falling apart; who are the main characters who put it back together again?
    Mrs. McNab and Mrs. Bast
    James and Mr. Tansley
    Prue and Cam
    Lily Briscoe


4. Who is the man who keeps saying too often, "Woman can't write. Women can't paint"?
    Mr., Ramsay
    Paul Rayley
    James
    Mr. Tansley


5. Of whom is the painting which is the subject of so much of the novel?
    Mrs. Ramsay and James
    Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay
    Minta and Paul
    Mr Bankes


6. Who thinks a lot about having some solitude and refers to this time as being "a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others"? "To the Lighthouse," Section One
    Andrew
    Nancy
    Mr Carmichael
    Mrs. Ramsay


7. Who does not die in this novel?
    Mrs. Ramsay
    Mr Ramsay
    Prue
    James


8. Who finishes the journey and makes it to the lighthouse in the third section of the novel?
    Mr. Ramsay
    Cam
    Lily Briscoe
    Mr. Tansley


9. Time is extremely important in this three part novel. The middle part, the shortest part, "Time Passes," summarizes a definite time in the history of the summer house. How much time does this section cover?
    Two weeks
    One month
    Ten years
    One summer


10. What is it that Mrs. Ramsay cannot do?
    Finish the painting
    Tell her husband that she loves him
    Go swimming
    Make small talk


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