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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Danvers offer to do?
(a) To show the narrator how Rebecca organised her menus.
(b) To open up the rooms in the west wing and to take the narrator on a tour.
(c) To take the narrator downstairs.
(d) To show the narrator where the stone passage is.

2. What annoys and astonishes Mrs Van Hopper?
(a) That little Nancy might have appendicitis.
(b) The difficulty of packing for the trip.
(c) Her realizaton that the narrator isn't excited about going to New York.
(d) Her realization that the narrator is happy in Europe.

3. Where does Maxim propose to take the narrator for their honeymoon?
(a) Verona.
(b) Venice.
(c) New York.
(d) Manderley.

4. Which words best describe Beatrice's Christmas party?
(a) Noisy, and very drunken with fights breaking out.
(b) Elegant, organized, but rather stodgy.
(c) Boistrous in an elegant way.
(d) Boistrous, noisy, silly and messy.

5. How might Beatrice's driving be described?
(a) Fast and skilful.
(b) Sensible, driving always at an appropriate speed.
(c) Fast, but careful and relatively safe.
(d) Fast, dangerous, not seeming to notice the chaos she causes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator respond to Maxim's note?

2. What is the narrator's attitude to the age-gap between herself and Maxim?

3. What fault in Mrs Van Hopper changes the narrator's destiny?

4. On what floor of the hotel building is Max's suite?

5. Who does Max describe as being "invariably late for dinner"?

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