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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In her dream, to whom does the narrator call?
(a) The lodge-keeper.
(b) Maxim de Winter.
(c) Mrs Van Hopper.
(d) Rebecca.

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

3. Which birds remind the narrator of Manderley?
(a) Swans.
(b) Pigeons.
(c) Ducks.
(d) Guinea fowl.

4. Why is the meal with Mrs Van Hopper eaten in silence?
(a) The narrator has nothing to say.
(b) Mrs Van Hopper likes to concentrate on the food.
(c) Mrs Van Hopper is annoyed with Max de Winter.
(d) Mrs Van Hopper is keeping silence for Lent.

5. What quality of the narrator's does Maxim de Winter value?
(a) Her beautiful fingernails.
(b) Her sophistication and dress sense.
(c) Her ability to lie to Mrs Van Hopper.
(d) Her unspoiled youth.

6. What is meant by "Jasper has gone to the happy hunting grounds"?
(a) Jasper is out hunting for rabbits.
(b) Jasper is frisky.
(c) Jasper is a good hunting dog.
(d) Jasper is dead.

7. What is an appropriate word to use for the dream picture of Manderley's grounds and garden?
(a) Exciting.
(b) Placid.
(c) Grotesque.
(d) Beautiful.

8. What was the quality of Mrs Danvers' smile?
(a) Fawning.
(b) Superior.
(c) Tentative.
(d) Proud.

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

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

11. 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.

12. What is it that the narrator describes as like a dark hand?
(a) The trees moving in the wind.
(b) The paw of a large dog.
(c) A cloud in front of the moon.
(d) The hand of Rebecca.

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

14. Who is responsible for attending to the narrator's letters?
(a) Frith, the butler.
(b) Mrs. Danvers.
(c) Maxim de Winter.
(d) Robert, the footman.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mrs Van Hopper misjudge the conversation with Maxim de Winter?

2. From the woods, where does Maxim say the right-hand path leads?

3. As she flees into the interior of the house, who does the narrator encounter in the passageway?

4. In what setting does the narrator think Max de Winter belongs?

5. How is Manderley's drive different from how the narrator imagined it?

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