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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color dress does the narrator eventually wear top the ball?
(a) Blue.
(b) Yellow.
(c) White.
(d) Red.

2. What does Beatrice suggest the narrator do in the morning?
(a) She should apologize to Maxim.
(b) She should sack Mrs. Danvers.
(c) She should have a good lie-in, with breakfast in bed.
(d) She should get up early and talk to Max.

3. Who are Hastings and Birkett?
(a) A firm specializing in marine salvage.
(b) Police officers.
(c) Travel agents.
(d) Lawyers.

4. In her morning reverie, how does the protagonist/narrator depict life at Manderley?
(a) As irrelevant, not moving with the times.
(b) As a world that the Communists will sweep away.
(c) As peaceful and lovely, an oasis in a world of strife.
(d) As graceful, but dangerously indulgent.

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

6. What has tarnished the silver dresses?
(a) A bottle of furniture polish.
(b) The azalea scent, turned stale.
(c) Stale perfume of roses.
(d) Verdigris.

7. What did Rebecca think of her lovers?
(a) She thought they were good providers.
(b) She laughed at them.
(c) She thought they gave her kudos.
(d) She adored them.

8. What does the narrator realize about Frank?
(a) That he will betray Maxim.
(b) That he knows Maxim killed Rebecca.
(c) That he no longer believes in Maxim.
(d) That he is in love with her.

9. What has changed concerning the relationship between the narrator and Mrs. Danvers?
(a) All power has gone out of the relationship.
(b) The power of Mrs. Danvers has grown stronger.
(c) The power roles are reversed.
(d) The narrator has gained some power.

10. As the storm approaches, to what does the narrator liken the sea?
(a) A blue lake.
(b) A black lake.
(c) A black snake.
(d) A duckpond.

11. What shocks does Maxim claim to have suffered?
(a) The discovery of the boat and the discovery of the body.
(b) Learning he'd made a mistake in identificaton and finding out the boat was sunk on purpose.
(c) The shock of seeing his new wife in Rebecca's dress.
(d) His mistaken identification and his sister's illness.

12. According to Mrs. Danvers, why should Mrs. de Winter kill herself?
(a) Max will never return to her because he really loves Rebecca.
(b) Because Maxim does not love her, she's not happy and a misfit at Manderley.
(c) It will make Rebecca happy.
(d) She'll go to Heaven where there are no troubles.

13. What costume does Max choose for the ball?
(a) Max will be going as Riahard III.
(b) Max never wears fancy dress; he's in evening clothes.
(c) Max will be dressed as Julius Caesar.
(d) Max will be dressed as a shepherd.

14. How has Maxim misunderstood his wife to this point?
(a) He has thought his wife was under the thumb of Mrs. Danvers.
(b) He has thought his wife aloof, unhappy and bored because of their age difference.
(c) He has thought his wife was bored and unhappy because she hadn't yet become pregnant.
(d) He has thought his wife might be in love with Frank.

15. What is Mrs. Danvers doing as she tells Mrs. de Winter about the night Rebecca died?
(a) She is pacing around the room like a mad thing.
(b) She has hold of Mrs. de Winter's arm to the extent of bruising it.
(c) She has hold of Mrs. de Winter's hands and is staring fiercely into her eyes.
(d) She is looking out the window at the sea below the house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Colonel Julyan not think it would help to write to the doctor about Rebecca's consultation?

2. How is the narrator's entrance to the ball announced?

3. What does Colonel Julyan say about blackmail?

4. Who is Captain Searle?

5. What is the "frightful word of six letters" to which the narrator refers?

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