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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Identify the figurative language in the phrase "lies like an empty shell."
(a) This is a simile.
(b) This is postmodern structuralism.
(c) This is a metaphor.
(d) This is onomatopoeia.

3. About what is the narrator especially knowledgeable?
(a) The English countryside.
(b) Vineyards.
(c) The history of Manderley.
(d) Breeding partridges.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For the narrator, what is the result of Mrs Van Hopper's illness?

2. In her dream of Manderley, the narrator stands . . .

3. From what illness is Mrs Van Hopper suffering?

4. Which birds remind the narrator of Manderley?

5. What sort of woman does the narrator crave to be?

(see the answer key)

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