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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Window Chapters 12 and 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the thing Mr. Bankes and Lily Briscoe see that they are not supposed to?
(a) The children pulling up Mrs. Ramsay's flowers
(b) A present James made for his mother.
(c) Mr. Ramsay reciting is poetry.
(d) Mrs. Ramsay crying

2. Mrs. Ramsay is excited that this character accepted her dinner invitation.
(a) Lily Briscoe
(b) Minta and Paul
(c) Mr. Tansley
(d) William Bankes

3. What does Lily see in Mr. Bankes' face as he watches Mrs. Ramsay?
(a) Disgust
(b) Ridicule
(c) Desire
(d) Rapture

4. Why does James hate his father?
(a) For laughing when James is learning to swim
(b) For never taking him to the circus
(c) For demanding the attention of his mother, and disrupting the time he is spending with her.
(d) For ridiculing him when he cuts out pictures

5. Why is Mrs. Ramsay so annoyed with Mr. Tansley, thinking him hateful?
(a) He insults her cooking.
(b) He tells James that he cannot go to the Lighthouse.
(c) He slaps James.
(d) He breaks her favorite necklace.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Ramsay do when she sees her husband looking at her?

2. How does Lily feel about the sympathy that Mrs. Ramsay gives Mr. Ramsay?

3. What does James imagine doing to his father?

4. What is Mr. Ramsay doing on the terrace as Mrs. Ramsay sits inside looking at catalogues?

5. How does Mr. Bankes refer to the Ramsay children?

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