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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What gives the impression of a church archway?
(a) The mingled branches of beech trees.
(b) Monster shrubs and plants.
(c) Oak trees.
(d) Binsey poplars.

2. What quality of the narrator's does Maxim de Winter value?
(a) Her beautiful fingernails.
(b) Her unspoiled youth.
(c) Her sophistication and dress sense.
(d) Her ability to lie to Mrs Van Hopper.

3. Who first suggests the revival of the Manderley Fancy Dress ball?
(a) The bishop in a neighboring cathedral town.
(b) The wife of a bishop in a neighboring cathedral town.
(c) Beatrice Lacy.
(d) Mrs. Danvers.

4. With what does Mrs Van Hopper compare Manderley?
(a) An Irish castle.
(b) Buckingham Palace.
(c) Fairy-land.
(d) Palm Beach.

5. What does the narrator find in the pocket of the car?
(a) A well-thumbed novel.
(b) Rebecca's gloves.
(c) A cache of love-letters.
(d) A book of poetry.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the narrator reminded of an English spring?

2. Why is the narrator rather shocked at herself?

3. How does the narrator react to Maxim's invitation to lunch with him?

4. How do the de Winters travel from London to Manderley?

5. Identify the figurative language in the phrase "lies like an empty shell."

Short Essay Questions

1. How appropriate is Maxim's suggestion that his wife dress for the costume ball as Alice in Wonderland?

2. What suggests that, when the story opens, the protagonist is in a climate different from that of the British Isles?

3. What is the difficult position Mrs. de Winter imagines she might shortly be in?

4. Comment on the significance of the title "Je Reviens--I come back" for Rebecca's boat.

5. What do you think he means when Frank Crawley tells the protagonist that it's vitally important they they talk?

6. What is the protagonist's vision of her life in Manderley?

7. How might an alert reader/responder deduce that people are not seeing the protagonist's difference from Rebecca in a negative light?

8. What complications enter the story via Jack Favell?

9. What leads to the protagonist's encounter with Mrs. Danvers in the west wing?

10. What are safe topics for the protagonist to read aloud to her husband?

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