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

2. What was the quality of Mrs Danvers' smile?
(a) Superior.
(b) Proud.
(c) Fawning.
(d) Tentative.

3. How does the narrator show she is nervous around the servants?
(a) She speaks to them in a tiny voice.
(b) She stutters when she speaks to them.
(c) She tells how her hands shake when she lights a cigarette.
(d) She creeps around on tiptoe.

4. How far away do Beatrice and Giles live?
(a) Fifty miles away.
(b) Fifteen miles away.
(c) Two hundred miles away.
(d) Forty miles away.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator feel about playing bridge?

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

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

4. How is Manderley's drive different from how the narrator imagined it?

5. Where does Maxim propose to take the narrator for their honeymoon?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do the words "We have no secrets now" imply?

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

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

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

6. Why does the protagonist feel that there is "a strange air of unreality" about her first luncheon with Maxim de Winter?

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

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

9. What do you think he means when Frank Crawley tells the protagonist that it's vitally important they they talk?

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

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