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1. The novel 'To The Lighthouse' is divided in three parts. Name the parts in its correct chronology.

The Lighthouse - Time Passes - The Window

Time Passes - The Window - The Lighthouse

The Window - Time Passes - The Lighthouse

None of the above

Clear selection

2. Which of the following events happen in 'Time Passes' section of the novel:

Select all those which speaks about events happening in this section 'Time Passes'. (5 Marks)

Deaths of Mrs. Ramsay, Andrew Ramsay, Prue etc

Journey to Lighthouse

Lily painting Mrs Ramsay on canvas

World War - I breaks out in Europe

World War - II breaks out in Europe

Mrs. McNab, the housekeeper, employs a few other women to help set the house in order

James angry at his father

Cam, James and Mr. Ramsay reaches Lighthouse

Mr. Ramsay feels insecure and looks toward Lily for support

Mr Ramsay, stumbling along a passage one dark morning, stretched his arms out, but Mrs Ramsay having died rather suddenly the night before, his arms, though stretched out, remained empty

A shell exploded. Twenty or thirty young men were blown up in France, among them Andrew Ramsay, whose death, mercifully, was instantaneous.]

Mr Carmichael brought out a volume of poems that spring, which had an unexpected success. The war, people said, had revived their interest in poetry

3. Which of the following events take place in 'The Lighthouse' section of the novel:

(5 Marks)

Mr. Ramsay declares that he and James and Cam, one of his daughters, will journey to the lighthouse

Mr. Ramsay appeals to Lily for sympathy, but, unlike Mrs. Ramsay, she is unable to provide him with what he needs

"Well done!" He said. Cam thought, James you got it at last.

It was done; it was finished. Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision.

Had there been an axe handy, a poker, or any weapon that would have gashed a hole in his father’s breast and killed him, there and then, James would have seized it.

World War - I breaks out in Europe

World War - II breaks out in Europe

Mr Ramsay, stumbling along a passage one dark morning, stretched his arms out, but Mrs Ramsay having died rather suddenly the night before, his arms, though stretched out, remained empty

A shell exploded. Twenty or thirty young men were blown up in France, among them Andrew Ramsay, whose death, mercifully, was instantaneous.]

Mr Carmichael brought out a volume of poems that spring, which had an unexpected success. The war, people said, had revived their interest in poetry

4. Which of the following events happen in section 'The Window' of the novel:

(5 Marks)

“Yes, of course, if it’s fine tomorrow,” said Mrs Ramsay. “But you’ll have to be up with the lark,” she added

Had there been an axe handy, a poker, or any weapon that would have gashed a hole in his father’s breast and killed him, there and then, James would have seized it

He was incapable of untruth; never tampered with a fact; never altered a disagreeable word to suit the pleasure or convenience of any mortal being, least of all of his own children, who, sprung from his loins, should be aware from childhood that life is difficult

shut a door; say they must keep the windows open and the doors shut

and there was Mr Tansley whispering in her ear, “Women can’t paint, women can’t write ...”

Mrs. Ramsay reads story to children

Mr Ramsay, stumbling along a passage one dark morning, stretched his arms out, but Mrs Ramsay having died rather suddenly the night before, his arms, though stretched out, remained empty

A shell exploded. Twenty or thirty young men were blown up in France, among them Andrew Ramsay, whose death, mercifully, was instantaneous.]

Mr Carmichael brought out a volume of poems that spring, which had an unexpected success. The war, people said, had revived their interest in poetry

Mr. Ramsay feels insecure and looks toward Lily for support

Mr. Ramsay feels insecure and looks toward Caroline for support

5. Match with the sections of the novel where it happens:

The Lighthouse

Time Passes

The Window

“But,” said his father, stopping in front of the drawing-room window, “it won’t be fine.”

It was done; it was finished. Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision.

He rose and stood in the bow of the boat, very straight and tall, for all the world, James thought, as if he were saying, “There is no God,” and Cam thought, as if he were leaping into space

There! Cam thought, addressing herself silently to James. You’ve got it at last. For she knew that this was what James had been wanting, and she knew that now he had got it he was so pleased that he would not look at her or at his father or at any one.

What do you want? they both wanted to ask. They both wanted to say, Ask us anything and we will give it you. But he did not ask them anything.

What had she done with it, Mrs Ramsay wondered, for Rose’s arrangement of the grapes and pears, of the horny pink-lined shell, of the bananas, made her think of a trophy fetched from the bottom of the sea, of Neptune’s banquet, of the bunch that hangs with vine leaves over the shoulder of Bacchus (in some picture), among the leopard skins and the torches lolloping red and gold

Mr Ramsay, stumbling along a passage one dark morning, stretched his arms out, but Mrs Ramsay having died rather suddenly the night before, his arms, though stretched out, remained empty

A shell exploded. Twenty or thirty young men were blown up in France, among them Andrew Ramsay, whose death, mercifully, was instantaneous.]

So she was dead; and Mr Andrew killed; and Miss Prue dead too, they said, with her first baby; but everyone had lost some one these years.

There was this expedition—they were going to the Lighthouse, Mr Ramsay, Cam, and James.