View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 creeps around on tiptoe.
(c) She stutters when she speaks to them.
(d) She speaks to them in a tiny voice.

2. What explanation does Maxim give for the shipping disaster?
(a) He believes the ship's captain was drunk.
(b) He believes the ship had tried to avoid smugglers.
(c) He believes the ship had not taken a pilot on board.
(d) He believes the ship mistook the bay for Kerrith Harbour.

3. Who is Colonel Julyan?
(a) A distant relative of Rebecca's.
(b) The magistrate for Penwith.
(c) A famous lawyer from London.
(d) The magistrate for Kerrith.

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

5. What does Mrs Van Hopper think the narrator will like about New York?
(a) There will be boys, excitement and her own set of friends.
(b) The shopping in Bloomingdale's.
(c) Friends, the theatre and Central Park in June.
(d) There will be boys and jazz clubs.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the time the narrator bought the postcard, how much was her weekly pocket-money?

2. What does the leather book contain?

3. In her dream, to whom does the narrator call?

4. Identify the figurative language in the phrase "lies like an empty shell."

5. What fault in Mrs Van Hopper changes the narrator's destiny?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 285 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample