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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the meal with Mrs Van Hopper eaten in silence?
(a) Mrs Van Hopper is annoyed with Max de Winter.
(b) Mrs Van Hopper likes to concentrate on the food.
(c) The narrator has nothing to say.
(d) Mrs Van Hopper is keeping silence for Lent.

2. What is the narrator's attitude to the age-gap between herself and Maxim?
(a) She thinks it is a big barrier to their happiness.
(b) She thinks Maxim is more like a father as he is so much older.
(c) She thinks age doesn't mean anything in marriage.
(d) She thinks it will matter in the future.

3. Why does the narrator tell Frank Crawley that Maxim did not come to bed?
(a) She wants Frank to feel sorry for her.
(b) She wants him to find Max and intercede for her.
(c) She trusts him, so confides in him.
(d) She is overwrought and blurts it out unthinkingly.

4. Who first suggests the revival of the Manderley Fancy Dress ball?
(a) The wife of a bishop in a neighboring cathedral town.
(b) Beatrice Lacy.
(c) Mrs. Danvers.
(d) The bishop in a neighboring cathedral town.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What flower does a guest suggest the narrator represents, in her blue dress?

2. What do the rockets indicate?

3. What excuse does the narrator give to Mrs. Danvers?

4. Who announces the arrival of Maxim's car?

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

(see the answer key)

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