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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the narrator value boredom?
(a) There'll be excitement later when she reads the cricket scores.
(b) It is a pleasant antidote to fear.
(c) It gives her time to write her novel.
(d) She doesn't value it at all and is restless.

2. How is Manderley's drive different from how the narrator imagined it?
(a) There are no trees lining it.
(b) It is not wide and straight, but narrow and serpentine.
(c) It seems neglected, needs resurfacing.
(d) The gravel is red, not white.

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

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) She avoids using slang words at all times.
(d) It's a shallow expression that doesn't convey the depth of happiness she has experienced.

5. How had they left the library door?
(a) Locked carefully.
(b) Open.
(c) Closed.
(d) Half open.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator define happiness?

2. How do the de Winters travel from London to Manderley?

3. What kind of flowers are in the morning room's vases?

4. How does the narrator react to Maxim's invitation to lunch with him?

5. What lie about her morning activities does the narrator tell Mrs Van Hopper?

(see the answer key)

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