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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 the narrator read in Frank Crawley's eyes?
(a) Relief.
(b) Recognition.
(c) Regret.
(d) Rejection.

2. What sort of car does Jack Favell drive?
(a) A Morris estate car.
(b) A Daimler.
(c) A green sports car.
(d) A red sports car.

3. How are the desk pigeonholes labeled?
(a) In copperplate engraving.
(b) In Mrs Danvers' handwriting.
(c) In typewritten courier font.
(d) In Rebecca's handwriting.

4. For the narrator, what gives "a glow about [her] morning"?
(a) The pleasure of wearing Max's coat.
(b) Her new makeup.
(c) Getting away from Mrs Van Hopper.
(d) The pleasure of driving in the car with Max.

5. What is the narrator's attitude to the age-gap between herself and Maxim?
(a) She thinks age doesn't mean anything in marriage.
(b) She thinks Maxim is more like a father as he is so much older.
(c) She thinks it will matter in the future.
(d) She thinks it is a big barrier to their happiness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frank think about the narrator?

2. Why does the narrator feel comfortable with her maid Clarice?

3. What was the quality of Mrs Danvers' smile?

4. Why does the narrator value boredom?

5. How far away do Beatrice and Giles live?

Short Essay Questions

1. What, in her opinion, is the servants' attitude to the protagonist in Rebecca?

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

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

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

5. What factor does the narrator feel has been pivotal to the way her life has turned out?

6. Why is Maxim against his wife going off after the dog Jasper?

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

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

9. What is the overall tone of the opening chapter?

10. Is the protagonist's assessment of herself, as not having guts, a true one?

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