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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Window Chapters 5, 6, 7 and 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mrs. Ramsay feel young men regard her?
(a) As if she were invisible
(b) As an old, stupid woman
(c) With reverence and trust
(d) As a senile lump

2. Why is Mrs. Ramsay concerned when the sound of the children playing and the men talking suddenly stops?
(a) She feels more comfortable with the noise of children playing.
(b) The silence makes her think of the destruction of the island and the years slipping away from her.
(c) She is afraid of being left alone.
(d) She fears one of the children might be hurt.

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

4. How does Mr. Bankes refer to the Ramsay children?
(a) With the names of wild animals
(b) With names like the Kings and Queens of England
(c) With the names of famous artists
(d) With the names of fairy tale characters

5. What does Mr. Ramsay compare men's minds to?
(a) The months of the year
(b) Numbers up to one hundred
(c) The days of the week
(d) Letters of the alphabet

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Mrs. Ramsay so annoyed with Mr. Tansley, thinking him hateful?

3. Why is Mr. Ramsay angry with his wife, cursing her?

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

5. Why does James hate his father?

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