To the Lighthouse Quizzes

1. How does Andrew Ramsay die?

• Tuberculosis
• Suicide
• Fighting in World War I
• A boating accident

2. What is Mrs. Ramsay knitting for the Lighthouse keeper's boy?

• A shawl
• Stockings
• A hat
• A scarf

3. What worries Mrs. Ramsay about Jasper?

• His hot temper
• His fondness for shooting birds
• His forgetfulness
• His sudden fever

4. In what year was To the Lighthouse published?

• 1856
• 1893
• 1927
• 1952

5. Where is the Ramsays' summer home?

• Long Island
• The Riviera
• The Hebrides
• Barbados

6. How does Augustus Carmichael infuriate Mr. Ramsay at dinner?

• By flirting with Mrs. Ramsay
• By criticizing his work
• By yelling at Prue
• By asking for more soup

7. With what does Mrs. Ramsay cover the boar's head on the nursery wall?

• A shawl
• A towel
• A hat
• A basket

8. What does Lily decide to move to the center of her painting?

• A purple triangle
• The Lighthouse
• A boat
• A tree

9. How does Mrs. Ramsay envision her essential self?

• As a nun
• As a bird
• As a boar
• As a wedge-shaped core of darkness

10. What poem does Mr. Ramsay recite to himself on the beach?

• The Second Coming
• Four Quartets
• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
• The Charge of the Light Brigade