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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what does Mrs Danvers' face remind the narrator?
(a) A fox.
(b) A ferret.
(c) A skull.
(d) A ghost.

2. Where is the narrator when Jack Favell discovers her?
(a) Behind the door to the morning room.
(b) In the cottage.
(c) Behind her study door.
(d) In the stone passageway.

3. What lie about her morning activities does the narrator tell Mrs Van Hopper?
(a) She says she has been playing tennis with the professional.
(b) She tells Mrs Van Hopper she went for a walk.
(c) She says she has been playing golf with the professional.
(d) She says she went to the casino.

4. What sort of woman does the narrator crave to be?
(a) Thirty-six years old and dressed in black satin and pearls.
(b) Witty and university educated.
(c) Older and wiser like Mrs Van Hopper.
(d) Thirty and more grown-up.

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

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

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

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

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

10. Of what is Ben afraid?
(a) He's afraid he will be put in an asylum.
(b) He's afraid he will lose his job.
(c) He's afraid of Jasper.
(d) He's afraid of Maxim de Winter.

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

12. What comment does Maxim make about Beatrice?
(a) She is tactless but a good hostess.
(b) She is a good person, but tactless.
(c) She is a good person but talks too much.
(d) She is a good rider.

13. What does the narrator find in the pocket of the car?
(a) Rebecca's gloves.
(b) A well-thumbed novel.
(c) A cache of love-letters.
(d) A book of poetry.

14. 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 a container on her desk.
(d) She put them in an envelope which she hid in her desk.

15. On what floor of the hotel building is Max's suite?
(a) It is on the third floor.
(b) It is on Level 148.
(c) It is on the seventh floor.
(d) It's on the second floor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is significant about the man the narrator meets on the beach?

2. What did the narrator wear on her visit to the bishop's wife?

3. Where does Maxim propose to take the narrator for their honeymoon?

4. Overall, what does this description show the reader about Manderley?

5. Why does the narrator think "ripping" is a poor word to describe her two weeks in Maxim's company?

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