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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. How does the narrator react to Maxim's invitation to lunch with him?
(a) She says nothing and goes quietly to his table.
(b) She is disturbed because he is flirting with her.
(c) She is excited at being invited to lunch with someone so important.
(d) She thinks he is just being polite and that her presence would spoil his lunch.

2. Who opens the car door for the narrator?
(a) She opens it herself.
(b) Mrs. Danvers.
(c) Maxim.
(d) The butler.

3. Of what does Mrs Danvers' face remind the narrator?
(a) A ferret.
(b) A fox.
(c) A skull.
(d) A ghost.

4. What is meant by "Jasper has gone to the happy hunting grounds"?
(a) Jasper is a good hunting dog.
(b) Jasper is frisky.
(c) Jasper is dead.
(d) Jasper is out hunting for rabbits.

5. What is Maxim's attitude to his past life?
(a) He wants to accept his mistakes and move on.
(b) He does not wish to remember it.
(c) It is a place full of sacred memories that he does not want to share.
(d) He wants to talk about it to free himself from its ghosts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fault in Mrs Van Hopper changes the narrator's destiny?

2. What annoys and astonishes Mrs Van Hopper?

3. How had they left the library door?

4. What enjoyable holiday does the bishop's wife mention?

5. Where does Maxim propose to take the narrator for their honeymoon?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Is it reasonable for Mrs. Danvers to blame herself for Rebecca's death?

4. Comment on the scene that takes place in Rebecca's room.

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

6. Comment on Ben's significance in this chapter.

7. In what ways does Rebecca conform to the genre of romance fiction?

8. In what ways is the protagonist of Rebecca a mystery?

9. Why does the protagonist say that she is coming to dread any reference to the sea?

10. What reasons does Favell assert will prevent him from getting justice over Rebecca's death?

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