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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these statements is true of Mrs Van Hopper?
(a) She likes matchmaking.
(b) She is refined and courteous.
(c) She is assertive and interesting.
(d) She is pushy, tactless, insensitive and boring,

2. How does the narrator show she is nervous around the servants?
(a) She stutters when she speaks to them.
(b) She creeps around on tiptoe.
(c) She tells how her hands shake when she lights a cigarette.
(d) She speaks to them in a tiny voice.

3. What does the narrator believe to be inevitable in everyone's life?
(a) The death of a friend.
(b) A moment of trial.
(c) The moment of death.
(d) A trial of wills.

4. Why does the narrator think "ripping" is a poor word to describe her two weeks in Maxim's company?
(a) She avoids using slang words at all times.
(b) It's a word that is not grown-up enough for her.
(c) Her late father didn't like that expression.
(d) It's a shallow expression that doesn't convey the depth of happiness she has experienced.

5. What special privilege does Max extend to the narrator?
(a) He allows her to call him Max.
(b) He allows her to drive his car.
(c) He allows/wants her to call him by his family's name for him: Maxim.
(d) He allows her to wear his coat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What quality of the narrator's does Maxim de Winter value?

2. What annoys and astonishes Mrs Van Hopper?

3. Identify the figurative language in the phrase "lies like an empty shell."

4. What does Mrs Van Hopper ask the narrator to fetch from her room?

5. How is the narrator reminded of an English spring?

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