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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. Of what is Rebecca's vase made?
(a) Poker work.
(b) Bronze.
(c) Alabaster.
(d) Ming china.

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

3. How is Manderley's drive different from how the narrator imagined it?
(a) The gravel is red, not white.
(b) It is not wide and straight, but narrow and serpentine.
(c) It seems neglected, needs resurfacing.
(d) There are no trees lining it.

4. Which birds remind the narrator of Manderley?
(a) Guinea fowl.
(b) Pigeons.
(c) Swans.
(d) Ducks.

5. How had they left the library door?
(a) Locked carefully.
(b) Open.
(c) Half open.
(d) Closed.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the desk pigeonholes labeled?

2. What color is the stone of which Manderley is built?

3. Who is Jasper?

4. From what illness is Mrs Van Hopper suffering?

5. What is it that the narrator describes as like a dark hand?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What complications enter the story via Jack Favell?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What images relating to death are contained in this chapter?

10. What is it that Colonel Julyan and Jack Favell seem to be blind to concerning the meaning of Rebecca's note and her visit to Dr Baker?

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