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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does the narrator feel about visiting Maxim's grandmother?
(a) She is bored by the idea but goes along with it politely.
(b) She is irritated at Beatrice asking her.
(c) She thinks it will be a waste of time.
(d) She is very much in favor of it.

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

5. 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 goes to the end of the breakwater, then goes to the clifftop.
(c) She stays on the clifftop.
(d) She stays on the beach.

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

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

8. Who discovers Baker's phone number?
(a) Mrs. de Winter.
(b) Colonel Julyan.
(c) Jack Favell.
(d) Mrs. Danvers.

9. Why is Beatrice unable to visit?
(a) She is too embarrassed.
(b) She has the measles.
(c) The family is in quarantine due to the measles.
(d) She has to nurse Giles and Roger.

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

11. What does Frank consider to be a universal instinct?
(a) To dress up in some sort of disguise.
(b) To kill enemies.
(c) To dress up and get drunk at parties.
(d) To disguise intentions if feeling threatened.

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

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

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

15. What is the "frightful word of six letters" to which the narrator refers?
(a) Merkin.
(b) Mauler.
(c) Murder.
(d) Mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maxim ask Frank to do?

2. What is Beatrice's theory about the holes in Rebecca's boat?

3. In what sort of mood is the narrator the morning after the fancy dress ball?

4. What shocks does Maxim claim to have suffered?

5. Where is the narrator when she puts "out [her] hand and touche[s] the brushes"?

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