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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 does Frank think about the narrator?
(a) He thinks that she is fresh, young and sensible.
(b) He thinks she is too young to manage Manderley.
(c) He thinks she is beautiful and shy.
(d) He thinks she is inexperienced and arrogant.

2. In her former life, about what was the narrator sometimes worried?
(a) The difficulty of getting good servants.
(b) The waste of food at Manderley.
(c) The poor quality of food at Manderley.
(d) The waste of angel cake at Manderley.

3. Where does Maxim propose to take the narrator for their honeymoon?
(a) Manderley.
(b) Venice.
(c) New York.
(d) Verona.

4. How does Beatrice greet the narrator?
(a) She shakes hands and kisses the narrator on each cheek.
(b) She looks at her coldly and extends a cold, moist hand.
(c) She kisses the narrator and shakes hands.
(d) She shakes hands firmly.

5. In what condition is the sofa-bed in the boathouse?
(a) It has been nibbled by mice and rats--not in good condition.
(b) It has been reupholstered.
(c) It is ripped open
(d) It is stained with blood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Monte Carlo attraction will Mrs Van Hopper miss by leaving early?

2. What gives the impression of a church archway?

3. Of what does Mrs Danvers' face remind the narrator?

4. What did the narrator do with the pieces of the figurine?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Maxim so upset when his wife comments that there would never be any gossip about her?

3. What is Maxim de Winter's attitude to Mrs. Van Hopper?

4. Is James Tabb a rounded character?

5. Describe the protagonist's feelings the morning after the fancy dress ball.

6. Show how honesty affects the relationship of Maxim and his wife during Chapter 20 of Rebecca.

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

8. Comment on the protagonist's feelings in Chapter 17 of Rebecca.

9. What does Maxim say is missing from his proposal?

10. Comment on the protagonist's conversation with Ben.

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