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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 interrupts Mrs Van Hopper's conversation with Max de Winter?
(a) Max spills coffee all over the narrator.
(b) A page-boy tells Mrs Van Hopper that a dressmaker is waiting.
(c) Mrs Van Hopper falls ill.
(d) A page-boy brings a letter for Maxim.

2. Whose things are in the boathouse?
(a) Jasper's.
(b) Maxim's.
(c) Ben's.
(d) Rebecca's.

3. In her dream, to whom does the narrator call?
(a) Maxim de Winter.
(b) Mrs Van Hopper.
(c) The lodge-keeper.
(d) Rebecca.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is significant about the man the narrator meets on the beach?

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

3. What does the narrator find in the pocket of the car?

4. How are the desk pigeonholes labeled?

5. What interesting sight does the narrator remember seeing in Monaco?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What criticisms of the British landed gentry are implied in this chapter of Rebecca?

3. Is James Tabb a rounded character?

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

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

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

7. Why does the protagonist think measles are a blessing in the context of the inquest?

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

9. What complications enter the story via Jack Favell?

10. What are the reasons the protagonist gives for her fear of stifling in Mrs. Van Hopper's room?

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