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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

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) Mrs Van Hopper falls ill.
(d) A page-boy brings a letter for Maxim.

2. What did the narrator do with the pieces of the figurine?
(a) She put them in her underwear drawer.
(b) She put them in an envelope and hid them under her pillow.
(c) She put them in an envelope which she hid in her desk.
(d) She put them in a container on her desk.

3. What gives the impression of a church archway?
(a) Oak trees.
(b) The mingled branches of beech trees.
(c) Binsey poplars.
(d) Monster shrubs and plants.

4. How does the narrator react to Maxim's invitation to lunch with him?
(a) She says nothing and goes quietly to his table.
(b) She is excited at being invited to lunch with someone so important.
(c) She thinks he is just being polite and that her presence would spoil his lunch.
(d) She is disturbed because he is flirting with her.

5. For the narrator, what is the result of Mrs Van Hopper's illness?
(a) She gets two weeks of freedom.
(b) She learns some valuable lessons from the trained nurse.
(c) She gets the sack.
(d) She gets two weeks of boredom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maxim tell his wife about the east wing?

2. Who first suggests the revival of the Manderley Fancy Dress ball?

3. What is an appropriate word to use for the dream picture of Manderley's grounds and garden?

4. Why does the narrator feel comfortable with her maid Clarice?

5. How is the narrator's entrance to the ball announced?

(see the answer key)

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