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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long after her drowning was Rebecca's body found?
(a) Two months.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) Six months.
(d) Two days.

2. How does the narrator feel about playing bridge?
(a) She thinks it suits her sharp mind.
(b) She thinks it's like Snap and Happy Families.
(c) She does not enjoy it.
(d) She prefers it to chess.

3. What did the narrator do with the pieces of the figurine?
(a) She put them in a container on her desk.
(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 her underwear drawer.

4. How do the de Winters travel from London to Manderley?
(a) They travel by car.
(b) They take a train from Euston.
(c) They take the train from Victoria station.
(d) They travel by sailboat.

5. In her former life, about what was the narrator sometimes worried?
(a) The waste of food at Manderley.
(b) The difficulty of getting good servants.
(c) The poor quality of food at Manderley.
(d) The waste of angel cake at Manderley.

6. In her dream of Manderley, the narrator stands . . .
(a) By a wooden gate leading to the drive.
(b) By an iron gate leading to the drive.
(c) At the window of Rebecca's room.
(d) At the door of the boatshed.

7. What is the narrator's attitude to the age-gap between herself and Maxim?
(a) She thinks age doesn't mean anything in marriage.
(b) She thinks it is a big barrier to their happiness.
(c) She thinks it will matter in the future.
(d) She thinks Maxim is more like a father as he is so much older.

8. What Monte Carlo attraction will Mrs Van Hopper miss by leaving early?
(a) A reception with the Grimaldis.
(b) A opera performance.
(c) Her bridge club.
(d) The Ballet.

9. What does the narrator read in Frank Crawley's eyes?
(a) Recognition.
(b) Rejection.
(c) Relief.
(d) Regret.

10. How does Beatrice greet the narrator?
(a) She shakes hands and kisses the narrator on each cheek.
(b) She kisses the narrator and shakes hands.
(c) She looks at her coldly and extends a cold, moist hand.
(d) She shakes hands firmly.

11. Which things are permanent, according to the narrator?
(a) Fear and suffering.
(b) The brown lilac and the Happy Valley.
(c) The bare little hotel bedroom and the dream.
(d) Manderley and Rebecca.

12. Who is Jasper?
(a) Maxim's dog.
(b) A ferret.
(c) Rebecca's dog.
(d) The narrator's cat.

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

14. How is the narrator reminded of an English spring?
(a) Through news of England on the radio.
(b) By looking through her photograph album.
(c) Through conversations with Maxim.
(d) Through old copies of the magazine Field.

15. From what illness is Mrs Van Hopper suffering?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Influenza.
(c) Pancreatitis.
(d) Asthma.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far away do Beatrice and Giles live?

2. What does Maxim tell Mrs Van Hopper about his valet?

3. What does Mrs. Danvers offer to do?

4. What does Mrs Van Hopper ask the narrator to fetch from her room?

5. What is meant by "Jasper has gone to the happy hunting grounds"?

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