1. To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. The novel centres on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920. Following and extending the tradition of modernist novelists like Marcel Proust and James Joyce, the plot of To the Lighthouse is secondary to its introspection of_____?
A:) feminism
B:) philosophical
C:) religious
D:) ethical
springline- Correct option: B:) philosophical
2. To the Lighthouse; The novel recalls childhood emotions and highlights adult relationships. Among the book's many tropes and themes are those of loss, subjectivity, the nature of art and the problem of perception. In 2005, the novel was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels since _____?
A:) 1923
B:) 1924
C:) 1925
D:) 1926
springline- Correct option: A:) 1923
3. To the Lighthouse; The novel is set in the Ramsays' summer home in the Hebrides, on the Isle of Skye. The section begins with Mrs Ramsay assuring her son James that they should be able to visit the lighthouse on the next day. This prediction is denied by _______?
A:) Mrs. Ramsay
B:) Mr. Ramsay
C:) James Ramsay
D:) Speker
springline- Correct option: B:) Mr. Ramsay
4. To the Lighthouse ;The Ramsays and their eight children are joined at the house by a number of friends and colleagues. One of these friends, Lily Briscoe, begins the novel as a young, uncertain painter attempting a portrait of Mrs. Ramsay and ______?
A:) James
B:) Mr. Ramsay
C:) Lily
D:) Charles
springline- Correct option: A:) James
5. To the Lighthouse ;Briscoe finds herself plagued by doubts throughout the novel, doubts largely fed by the claims of Charles Tansley, another guest, who asserts that women can neither paint nor write. Tansley himself is an admirer of Mr Ramsay, a philosophy professor, and Ramsay's academic treatises. The section closes with a ___?
A:) religious party
B:) dance party
C:) dinner party
D:) birthday party
springline- Correct option: C:) dinner party
6. To the Lighthouse ;When Augustus Carmichael, a visiting poet, asks for a second serving of soup, Mr Ramsay nearly snaps at him. Mrs Ramsay is herself out of sorts when Paul Rayley and Minta Doyle, two acquaintances whom she has brought together in engagement, arrive late to dinner. Who has lost her grandmother's brooch on the beach ?
A:) Lily
B:) Minta
C:) Thomas
D:) Charles
springline- Correct option: B:) Minta
7. To the Lighthouse ;The second section, ‘Time passes’, gives a sense of time passing, absence, and death. Ten years pass, during which the First World War begins and ends. Mrs Ramsay dies, as do two of her children – Prue dies from complications of childbirth, and Who is killed in the war?
A:) Andrew
B:) Charles Donsley
C:) Lily
D:) Mr. Ramsay
springline- Correct option: A:) Andrew
8. To the Lighthouse ; Mr Ramsay is left adrift without his wife to praise and comfort him during his bouts of fear and anguish regarding the longevity of his philosophical work. This section is told from an omniscient point of view and occasionally from Mrs. McNab's point of view. Mrs. McNab worked in ____?
A:) Factory
B:) Ramsay's house
C:) school
D:) Lily’s house
springline- Correct option: B:) Ramsay's house
9. To the Lighthouse ;In the final section, ‘The Lighthouse’, some of the remaining Ramsays and other guests return to their summer home ten years after the events of Part I. Mr Ramsay is finally plans on taking the long-delayed trip to the lighthouse with daughter _______?
A:) Cam Ramsay
B:) Paul Rayley
C:) Roger Ramsay
D:) Nancy Ramsay
springline- Correct option: A:) Cam Ramsay
10. To the Lighthouse ;The trip almost does not happen, as the children are not ready, but they eventually set off. As they travel, the children are silent in protest at their father for forcing them to come along. Who keeps the sailing boat steady and rather than receiving the harsh words he has come to expect from Mr.Ramsay?
A:) William Bankes
B:) Rose Ramsay
C:) Macalister
D:) James
springline- Correct option: D:) James
11. Who attempts to finally complete the painting she has held in her mind since the start of the novel and she reconsiders her memory of Mrs and Mr Ramsay, balancing the multitude of impressions from ten years ago in an effort to reach towards an objective truth about Mrs Ramsay and life itself ?
A:) Paul Rayley
B:) Lilly
C:) Minta Doyle
D:) Charles Tansley
springline- Correct option: B:) Lilly
12. The novel maintains an unusual form of omniscient narrator; the plot unfolding through shifting perspectives of each character's consciousness. Shifts can occur even mid-sentence, and in some sense they resemble the rotating beam of the lighthouse itself. Unlike Whose stream of consciousness technique, however, Woolf does not tend to use abrupt fragments to represent characters' thought processes; her method is more one of lyrical paraphrase ?
A:) Lily Briscoe
B:) Paul Rayley
C:) James Joyce
D:) Augustus Carmichael
springline- Correct option: C:) James Joyce
13. Virginia Woolf; In Monk's House also lacked water and electricity, but came with an acre of garden, and had a view across the Ouse towards the hills of the South Downs. Leonard Woolf describes this view (and the amenities) as being unchanged since the days of Chaucer. From 1940, it became their permanent home after their London home was bombed, and Virginia continued to live there until her death. Meanwhile, Vanessa made Charleston her permanent home in _________?
A:) 1935
B:) 1936
C:) 1937
D:) 1938
springline- Correct option: A:) 1935
14. Who is a botanist and old friend of the Ramsays who stays on the Isle of Skye and he is a kind and mellow man whom Mrs. Ramsay hopes will marry Lily Briscoe and Although he never marries her, Bankes and Lily remain close friends?
A:) William Bankes
B:) Augustus Carmichael
C:) Andrew
D:) Charles
springline- Correct option: A:) William Bankes
15. Adrian was not allowed to go on an expedition to Godrevy Lighthouse, just as in the novel James looks forward to visiting the lighthouse and is disappointed when the trip is cancelled. Whose meditations on painting are a way for Woolf to explore her own creative process (and also that of her painter sister), since Woolf thought of writing in the same way that thought of painting ?
A:) Charles Tansley
B:) Lily Briscoe
C:) Minta Doyle
D:) James Ramsay
springline- Correct option: B:) Lily Briscoe
16. Woolf's father began renting Talland House in St. Ives, in 1882, shortly after Woolf's own birth. The house was used by the family as a family retreat during the summer for the next ten years. The location of the main story in To the Lighthouse, Which was formed by Woolf in imitation of Talland House, that was in the novel of the house on the _____?
A:) Palawan island
B:) The Cook Islands
C:) Maldives
D:) Hebridean island
springline- Correct option: D:) Hebridean island
17. Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf was born into an affluent household in South Kensington, London. She is a____?
A:) fifth child
B:) six child
C:) seventh child
D:) eighth child
springline- Correct option: C:) seventh child
18. During her time in Firle, Virginia became better acquainted with Rupert Brooke and his group of Neo-Pagans, pursuing socialism, vegetarianism, exercising outdoors and alternative life styles, including social nudity. They were influenced by the ethos of Bedales, Fabianism and ____?
A:) Milton
B:) Thomas Gray
C:) Chaucer
D:) Shelley
springline- Correct option: D:) Shelley
19. To the Lighthouse, novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1927. The work is one of her most successful and accessible experiments in the stream-of-consciousness style. The three sections of the book take place between 1910 and 1920 and revolve around various members of the Ramsay family during visits to their summer residence on the Isle of Skye in ___?
A:) Scotland
B:) England
C:) Australia
D:) Island
springline- Correct option: A:) Scotland
20. Modernism, in the fine arts, a break with the past and the concurrent search for new forms of expression. Modernism fostered a period of experimentation in the arts from the late 19th to the mid-20th century, particularly in the years following _____?
A:) World War I
B:) World War II
C:) Civil War
D:) French War
springline- Correct option: A:) World War I
21. Who is the most beautiful of all children in the Ramsay family and She is older than her sisters were on the edge of womanhood and she is an embodiment of beauty and tenderness and her behavior and manners are perfect and impressive. Mrs. Ramsay expects her to be the most beautiful of her children ?
A:) Andrew Ramsay
B:) Prue Ramsay
C:) Rose Ramsay
D:) Minta
springline- Correct option: B:) Prue Ramsay
22. Throughout her life, Woolf was troubled by her mental illness. She was institutionalised several times and attempted suicide at least twice. Her illness may have been bipolar disorder, for which there was no effective intervention during her lifetime. In 1941, at age 59, Woolf died by drowning herself in the ______?
A:) sea
B:) river
C:) lake
D:) well
springline- Correct option: B:) river
23. Julia was the youngest of three sisters, and Adeline Virginia was named after her mother's eldest sister Adeline Maria Jackson (1837–1881) and her mother's aunt Virginia Pattle (see Pattle family tree). Because of the tragedy of her aunt Adeline's death the previous year, the family never used Virginia's first name. Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen on ______?
A:) 25 January 1882
B:) 24 January 1881
C:) 25 March 1881
D:) 24 March 1882
springline- Correct option: A:) 25 January 1882
24. Who was points out, Woolf was not ‘mad’; she was merely a woman who suffered from and struggled with illness for much of her relatively short life, a woman of ‘exceptional courage, intelligence and stoicism’, who made the best use, and achieved the best understanding she could of that illness. ?
A:) Emily Bronte
B:) Hermione Lee
C:) Margaret Atwood
D:) Adrian Rich
springline- Correct option: B:) Hermione Lee
25. At Hyde Park Gate and Talland House, the family mingled with much of the country's literary and artistic circles. Frequent guests included literary figures such as Henry James and George Meredith, as well as James Russell Lowell, and the children were exposed to much more intellectual conversations than at their mother's Little Holland House. The family did not return, following Julia Stephen's death in _____?
A:) June 1895
B:) March 1895
C:) May 1895
D:) April 1895
springline- Correct option: C:) May 1895
26. Between the ages of 15 and 19, Virginia was able to pursue higher education. She studied Greek under the eminent scholar George Charles Winter Warr, professor of Classical Literature at King's.In addition she had private tutoring in German, Greek and Latin. One of her Greek tutors was _______?
A:) Clara Pater
B:) Carol
C:) Ann Sexton
D:) James Peter
springline- Correct option: A:) Clara Pater
27. Virginia moved into 29 Fitzroy Square in April 1907, a house on the west side of the street, formerly occupied by George Bernard Shaw. It was in Fitzrovia, immediately to the west of Bloomsbury but still relatively close to her sister at Gordon Square. The two sisters continued to travel together, visiting Paris in ________?
A:) January
B:) March
C:) May
D:) Spring
springline- Correct option: B:) March
28. Thomas Caramagno and others, in discussing her illness, oppose the ‘neurotic-genius’ way of looking at mental illness, where creativity and mental illness are conceptualised as linked rather than antithetical. Who describes Woolf as having a confrontational relationship with her doctors, and possibly being a woman who is a ‘victim of male medicine’, referring to the lack of understanding, particularly at the time, about mental illness ?
A:) John Triton
B:) Walter Bader
C:) Stephen Trombley
D:) Mathew Arnold
springline- Correct option: C:) Stephen Trombley
29. Woolf would go on to publish novels and essays as a public intellectual to both critical and popular acclaim. Much of her work was self-published through the Hogarth Press. ‘Virginia Woolf's peculiarities as a fiction writer have tended to obscure her central strength: she is arguably the major lyrical novelist in the English language. Woolf became one of the central subject of the 1970s movement of______?
A:) modernism
B:) high-seriousness
C:) feminist criticism
D:) socialism
springline- Correct option: C:) feminist criticism
30. Woolf admired Chekhov for his stories of ordinary people living their lives, doing banal things and plots that had no neat endings. From Who, Woolf drew lessons about how a novelist should depict a character's psychological state and the interior tension within?
A:) Shelley
B:) Tolstoy
C:) Dickenson
D:) Harold Pinter
springline- Correct option: B:) Tolstoy