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UNIT 2
Questions
5 - 8 Second
Passage
"But" said his father,
stopping in front of the drawing-room window, "It won't be fine." 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.
Such were the extremes of emotion that Mr.Ramsay excited in his children's
breasts by his mere presence; standing, as now, lean as a knife, narrow as the
blade of one, grinning sarcastically, not only with the pleasure of
disillusioning his son and casting ridicule upon his wife, who was ten thousand
times better in every way than he was (James thought), but also with some
secret conceit at his own accuracy of judgement. What he said was true. It was
always true. He was incapable of untruth; never tampered with a fact; never
altered a disagreeable word to suit the convenience of any mortal being, least
of all his own children, who, sprung from his loins, should be aware from
childhood that life is difficult; facts uncompromising; and the passage to that
fabled land where our brightest hopes are extinguished, our frail barks founder
in darkness (here Mr Ramsay would straighten his back and narrow his little
blue eyes on the horizon), one that needs, above all, courage, truth, and the
power to endure.
Question 5
The second sentence of the
second passage is designed to show that:-
A James Ramsay is a
psychopath
B Mr Ramsay makes other people feel violent
C
Children are prone to sudden, exaggerated mood changes
D There is a
significant change in tone from the first passage
Question 6
James Ramsay's attitude to his father is experienced by the reader as
being:-
A Wildly inappropriate
B Utterly appalling
C Understandable under the circumstances
D Justifiable
because implicitly endorsed by the author
Question 7
Mr
Ramsay would "Straighten his back and narrow his…eyes on the horizon"
because: -
A He is not interested in the situation in front of
him
B He needs to narrow his eyes in order to see (either literally
or metaphorically) into the distance
C The phrase indicates his
sentimental self indulgence
D The phrase indicates his courage in
facing unpleasant facts
Question 8
Mr Ramsay says "It
won't be fine" because:-
A That is the truth as he sees it
B He wants to antagonise his wife and his son
C His view
into the distance reveals to him the arriving weather conditions
D
He is merely attempting conversation
SECTION
ANSWERS
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