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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. For the narrator, what is the result of Mrs Van Hopper's illness?
(a) She gets two weeks of freedom.
(b) She learns some valuable lessons from the trained nurse.
(c) She gets two weeks of boredom.
(d) She gets the sack.

2. Who does Max describe as being "invariably late for dinner"?
(a) King Alfred.
(b) King Ethelred the Unready.
(c) Mrs Van Hopper.
(d) Rebecca.

3. What Monte Carlo attraction will Mrs Van Hopper miss by leaving early?
(a) Her bridge club.
(b) A opera performance.
(c) A reception with the Grimaldis.
(d) The Ballet.

4. What does Mrs Van Hopper think the narrator will like about New York?
(a) The shopping in Bloomingdale's.
(b) There will be boys and jazz clubs.
(c) There will be boys, excitement and her own set of friends.
(d) Friends, the theatre and Central Park in June.

5. Who is responsible for attending to the narrator's letters?
(a) Robert, the footman.
(b) Maxim de Winter.
(c) Mrs. Danvers.
(d) Frith, the butler.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator's attitude to the age-gap between herself and Maxim?

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

3. In what colors is the buoy painted?

4. In her former life, about what was the narrator sometimes worried?

5. How does Beatrice announce that she will be coming to lunch?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the effect on the protagonist of her days spent with Maxim?

2. Why and in what way does the protagonist behave uncharacteristically?

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

4. Is James Tabb a rounded character?

5. Comment on the significance of Frank's comment that humans enjoy disguises.

6. What is Maxim's response to Favell's threats?

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

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

9. Could this novel have been called Manderley, not Rebecca?

10. Comment on the layers of meaning in Chapter 19 of Rebecca.

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