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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is a diver employed?
(a) To inspect the damaged hull of the ship.
(b) To look for survivors.
(c) To salvage items from the ship's safe.
(d) To make a report on damage to the reef.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does the narrator not want her husband to know?
(a) That the nurse is not looking after his grandmother properly.
(b) The way his grandmother behaved, wanting Rebecca.
(c) That Beatrice endangered her life in the car.
(d) That she visited his grandmother.

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

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

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

14. What is Beatrice's theory about the holes in Rebecca's boat?
(a) She thinks Communists were responsible.
(b) She thinks Maxim was responsible.
(c) She thinks Ben probably did it.
(d) She doesn't believe there were any holes in the boat.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Rebecca's boat, as written on the name board?

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

3. What costume does Maxim de Winter suggest his wife wear to the fancy dress ball?

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

5. What does Maxim tell his wife at last?

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