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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maxim's Gran believe are the three most important qualities in a wife?
(a) Fertility, feistiness and fearlessness.
(b) Breeding, bearing and beauty,
(c) Breeding, brains and beauty.
(d) Archness, aristocracy and acumen.

2. Why does the narrator tell Frank Crawley that Maxim did not come to bed?
(a) She wants him to find Max and intercede for her.
(b) She wants Frank to feel sorry for her.
(c) She trusts him, so confides in him.
(d) She is overwrought and blurts it out unthinkingly.

3. What is Mr Tubb's opinion about the boat's sinking?
(a) He says it was deliberately scuttled.
(b) He says part of the hull was sawn off.
(c) He says someone tampered with the boat when it was moored.
(d) He says Rebecca was unusually careless.

4. Why does Colonel Julyan not think it would help to write to the doctor about Rebecca's consultation?
(a) The doctor has moved house and might not receive the letter.
(b) There is a postal strike.
(c) The doctor probably doesn't have the medical records, as he has retired.
(d) He would not give out confidential patient information in that manner.

5. 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 irrelevant, not moving with the times.
(c) As peaceful and lovely, an oasis in a world of strife.
(d) As graceful, but dangerously indulgent.

6. What does Favell want?
(a) To give Maxim a note he received from Rebecca.
(b) Rebecca's money.
(c) For Maxim to pay him a lump sum to go away.
(d) To receive an annual income from Maxim, as blackmail.

7. For the narrator, what is the dreadful ending to the evening?
(a) Max does not come to bed.
(b) Max is weeping for Rebecca.
(c) Mrs. Danvers laughs at her.
(d) Mrs. Danvers and Max laugh at her.

8. Who is Colonel Julyan?
(a) The magistrate for Penwith.
(b) A famous lawyer from London.
(c) A distant relative of Rebecca's.
(d) The magistrate for Kerrith.

9. How does Max feel about speaking to the press?
(a) He is worried he might antagonize them.
(b) He doesn't want to make any statements.
(c) He only wants to make prepared statements.
(d) He thinks he needs them on his side.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who instructs Mrs. Danvers to lock Maxim and his wife in their room for the night?

2. What flower does a guest suggest the narrator represents, in her blue dress?

3. What does Favell think will help Ben to remember him?

4. Who discovers Baker's phone number?

5. What color dress does the narrator eventually wear top the ball?

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