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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) She'll go to Heaven where there are no troubles.
(d) It will make Rebecca happy.

2. Who is Captain Searle?
(a) The captain of the foundered vessel.
(b) An army reservist and magistrate.
(c) The harbormaster at Kerrith.
(d) The diver.

3. What does Favell think will help Ben to remember him?
(a) A good supper.
(b) A whipping.
(c) The people at the asylum.
(d) Hypnotherapy.

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

5. What are Maxim's dominant feelings about his years with Rebecca?
(a) Knowing other man could have what he couldn't have.
(b) His awe at Rebecca's beauty and cleverness.
(c) The shame of having to deceive his grandmother.
(d) The shame and degradation from living a lie.

6. What does Maxim tell his wife to do?
(a) To go upstairs and stay there out of sight.
(b) Accompany him to the library.
(c) To fetch Mrs. Danvers.
(d) To go and get changed before anyone arrives.

7. Who saw Rebecca leave the note at Favell's flat?
(a) A housemaid.
(b) A cab driver.
(c) Rebecca's chauffeur.
(d) The porter.

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

9. What prevents Beatrice going to London with them all?
(a) Roger wants her to watch him play cricket.
(b) Roger can't be left as he is sick and doesn't like the nurse.
(c) Her car is in for service.
(d) Giles is ill and Beatrice is suspicious of the nurse.

10. What reason does Mrs Danvers give for her deception over the ball dress?
(a) She likes the feeling of power.
(b) She thinks Mrs. de Winter is a weak fool and therefore fair game.
(c) She says it is something Rebecca would have done.
(d) She wanted revenge because she believes Mrs. de Winter told her husband of Jack Favell's visit.

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

12. What is depicted on the postcard set on the doctor's mantelpiece?
(a) A picture of Lake Constance.
(b) A picture of Lake Geneva.
(c) A picture of Lake Como.
(d) A picture of the Venice Lagoon.

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

14. What is Colonel Julyan's hope concerning Jack Favell?
(a) That he will wake up to himself.
(b) That he will remember to bring Rebecca's note.
(c) That he has overslept.
(d) That he will be run over by a bus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maxim ask Frank to do?

2. In what way does the narrator find Frank Crawley invaluable?

3. In what area of London does Dr Baker live?

4. Why does the narrator tell Frank Crawley that Maxim did not come to bed?

5. What has changed concerning the relationship between the narrator and Mrs. Danvers?

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