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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator stand to watch the drama of the grounded ship?
(a) She stays on the clifftop.
(b) She stays on the beach.
(c) She stays in the house and looks out the window.
(d) She goes to the end of the breakwater, then goes to the clifftop.

2. How many people from the ship are drowned?
(a) Three hundred.
(b) Eleven.
(c) None.
(d) One.

3. In what way does the narrator find Frank Crawley invaluable?
(a) He conducts an inspection of Happy Valley.
(b) He helps her with accounts.
(c) He helps her serve tea to the many visitors.
(d) He teaches her to ride.

4. Who announces the arrival of Maxim's car?
(a) Robert.
(b) Clarice.
(c) Frith.
(d) Mrs. Danvers.

5. Who is the unexpected visitor that Frith announces?
(a) Maxim's grandmother.
(b) Rebecca's grandmother.
(c) Jack Favell.
(d) The coroner.

6. Which words best describe Beatrice's Christmas party?
(a) Noisy, and very drunken with fights breaking out.
(b) Elegant, organized, but rather stodgy.
(c) Boistrous, noisy, silly and messy.
(d) Boistrous in an elegant way.

7. What is the name of the game the narrator feels is being played with Mrs. Danvers?
(a) Old Witch.
(b) Witchery.
(c) Spicks and Soecks.
(d) Old Bailey.

8. What does the narrator's dream suggest?
(a) That she is spooked by Mrs. Danvers.
(b) That she is insecure about Maxim's feelings for her.
(c) That she would like to be Rebecca.
(d) That she likes walking in the forest.

9. What does Mrs. Danvers suggest to the narrator?
(a) That Rebecca is her spirit guide.
(b) That she wear Rebecca's clothes.
(c) That it is time they both had a break and went downstairs.
(d) That Rebecca haunts Manderley.

10. What are the qualities the narrator believes a person must have to be well-bred?
(a) Pride and guts.
(b) A good accent and pride.
(c) An aristocratic pedigree.
(d) Pride and money.

11. What is Beatrice's theory about the holes in Rebecca's boat?
(a) She thinks Ben probably did it.
(b) She thinks Maxim was responsible.
(c) She doesn't believe there were any holes in the boat.
(d) She thinks Communists were responsible.

12. Who instructs Mrs. Danvers to lock Maxim and his wife in their room for the night?
(a) Mrs de Winter.
(b) Jack Favell.
(c) Maxim de Winter.
(d) Colonel Julyan.

13. What was Rebecca's attitude to doctors?
(a) She respected them.
(b) She was indifferent to them.
(c) She despised them.
(d) She didn't trust them completely, but consulted them.

14. For how long would Rebecca have her hair brushed?
(a) Five minutes.
(b) Twenty minutes.
(c) Thirty minutes.
(d) Fifteen minutes.

15. Why does Frank visit the vicar?
(a) To ask him for dinner.
(b) To borrow his car.
(c) To arrange Rebecca's burial.
(d) To confess what he knows about the murder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What story is circulated regarding Mrs. de Winter's dress?

2. What is the name of Rebecca's boat, as written on the name board?

3. Why are the shops in Layton closed?

4. What costume does Maxim de Winter suggest his wife wear to the fancy dress ball?

5. Why is a diver employed?

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