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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 in the house and looks out the window.
(b) She stays on the beach.
(c) She goes to the end of the breakwater, then goes to the clifftop.
(d) She stays on the clifftop.

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

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

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

5. What does Colonel Julyan say about blackmail?
(a) It is a way to become rich.
(b) It is pure and simple.
(c) It is neither pure nor simple.
(d) It is simple, but not pure.

6. What does Rebecca imply during her final confrontation with Maxim?
(a) That she is pregnant with another man's child.
(b) That Maxim won't divorce her because she is pregnant.
(c) That she is pregnant with Maxim's child.
(d) That Maxim is impotent.

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

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

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

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

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

13. In what sort of mood is the narrator the morning after the fancy dress ball?
(a) She is exhausted.
(b) She is angry and depressed.
(c) She is tired and nervous.
(d) She is in despair.

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

15. Why are the shops in Layton closed?
(a) As a mark of respect to Rebecca.
(b) The shopowners have all gone to the inquest.
(c) It is early closing day.
(d) It is Sunday.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Beatrice unable to visit?

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

3. What is depicted on the postcard set on the doctor's mantelpiece?

4. As the storm approaches, to what does the narrator liken the sea?

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

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