To The Lighthouse Past paper Questions

To The Lighthouse

Past paper Questions

Q1. “In To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf found a subject that enabled her to do full justice to her technique”. (2010-A)

Q2. ‘Mrs. Ramsay brings people together, yet is an isolated person’. Discuss the character and role of Mrs. Ramsay in the light of this comment. (2010-S)

Q3. ‘Virginia Woolf adopted a revolutionary technique for the expression of her vision of life and human
Nature’. Discuss (2010-S)

Q4. To The Light House is a novel that portrays an Oedipal struggle between James and Mr. Ramsay. Discuss with close reference to the text. (2011-S)

Q5. What are the distinctive qualities of Virginia Woolf as a novelist? Do not confine your answer to “ To The Light House” only. (2012-A)

Q6. What is meant by stream of consciousness? How does Virginia Woolf use this surreal technique to depict the Ramsay family. (2012-S)
Q7. Why does Virginia Woolf use stream of consciousness in this novel? How effective is it? What sort of a “feel” do you get from the characters? The setting? The novelist? (2013-A)

Q8. What are the differences and similarities in how Mrs. Ramsay, Mr. Ramsay, and Lily approach time? (2013-S)

Q9. To The Light House is one of Woolf’s most successful and accessible experiments in modernist mode, including stream of consciousness. Illustrate citing examples from the text of the novel. (2014-A)

Q10. What is Lily’s dilemma throughout the novel regarding her wish to be an artist? (2014-S)

Q11. What is the nature of relationship between Mrs. Ramsay and Lily Briscoe in To The Lighthouse? (2015-A)

Q12. What is the narrative technique of the novel To The Lighthouse? (2015-S)

Q13. How do men and women in the novel respond to the gender roles that they perceive or that are imposed upon them in To The Lighthouse? (2016-A)