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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what does Mrs Van Hopper compare Manderley?
(a) Fairy-land.
(b) Buckingham Palace.
(c) Palm Beach.
(d) An Irish castle.

2. Who does Max describe as being "invariably late for dinner"?
(a) Rebecca.
(b) King Ethelred the Unready.
(c) Mrs Van Hopper.
(d) King Alfred.

3. What fruit does the narrator anticipate being served at tea?
(a) Strawberries and cream.
(b) Cranberries.
(c) Apples.
(d) Fresh raspberries.

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

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

6. What does the narrator find in the raincoat pocket?
(a) A monogrammed cigarette case.
(b) A bloodstained handkerchief.
(c) A note from Rebecca.
(d) A monogrammed handkerchief.

7. What is Maxim's attitude to his past life?
(a) It is a place full of sacred memories that he does not want to share.
(b) He wants to talk about it to free himself from its ghosts.
(c) He does not wish to remember it.
(d) He wants to accept his mistakes and move on.

8. How far away do Beatrice and Giles live?
(a) Fifteen miles away.
(b) Two hundred miles away.
(c) Fifty miles away.
(d) Forty miles away.

9. Why does the narrator feel comfortable with her maid Clarice?
(a) She is experienced in service and very helpful.
(b) They are the same age.
(c) She is a friendly, outgoing girl.
(d) She has never been in service before and has no alarming standards.

10. How does Mrs Van Hopper misjudge the conversation with Maxim de Winter?
(a) She thinks Max was embarrassed by the narrator's behavior.
(b) She thinks Max is falling for her.
(c) She believes Max was flirting with the narrator.
(d) She believes Max thinks she is witty.

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

12. Who opens the car door for the narrator?
(a) The butler.
(b) Mrs. Danvers.
(c) Maxim.
(d) She opens it herself.

13. What color is the stone of which Manderley is built?
(a) Pink.
(b) Olive.
(c) Gray.
(d) Black.

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

15. In what setting does the narrator think Max de Winter belongs?
(a) In an imposing London bank building.
(b) On the cover of a magazine like Tatler.
(c) A fifteenth century walled city.
(d) At Palm Beach in Florida.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator respond to Maxim's note?

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

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

4. What can moonlight do, according to the narrator?

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

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