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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator respond to Maxim's note?
(a) She reads it but does not send a reply.
(b) She is excited and hides the note from Mrs Van Hopper.
(c) She reads it and replies at once.
(d) She is shocked and destroys the note.

2. What interrupts Mrs Van Hopper's conversation with Max de Winter?
(a) Mrs Van Hopper falls ill.
(b) Max spills coffee all over the narrator.
(c) A page-boy brings a letter for Maxim.
(d) A page-boy tells Mrs Van Hopper that a dressmaker is waiting.

3. How does Beatrice announce that she will be coming to lunch?
(a) She telephones Maxim.
(b) In a postcard.
(c) In a letter.
(d) She telephones Mrs Danvers.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What special privilege does Max extend to the narrator?

2. How long after her drowning was Rebecca's body found?

3. Why does the narrator value boredom?

4. What is the narrator's first reaction to Maxim's confession that he killed Rebecca?

5. What does the narrator's dream suggest?

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