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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Mrs. Danvers, why should Mrs. de Winter kill herself?
(a) Because Maxim does not love her, she's not happy and a misfit at Manderley.
(b) Max will never return to her because he really loves Rebecca.
(c) It will make Rebecca happy.
(d) She'll go to Heaven where there are no troubles.

2. What has changed concerning the relationship between the narrator and Mrs. Danvers?
(a) The narrator has gained some power.
(b) All power has gone out of the relationship.
(c) The power roles are reversed.
(d) The power of Mrs. Danvers has grown stronger.

3. What does Maxim's Gran believe are the three most important qualities in a wife?
(a) Archness, aristocracy and acumen.
(b) Breeding, bearing and beauty,
(c) Breeding, brains and beauty.
(d) Fertility, feistiness and fearlessness.

4. Why does the narrator tell Frank Crawley that Maxim did not come to bed?
(a) She trusts him, so confides in him.
(b) She is overwrought and blurts it out unthinkingly.
(c) She wants Frank to feel sorry for her.
(d) She wants him to find Max and intercede for her.

5. What does Rebecca imply during her final confrontation with Maxim?
(a) That Maxim won't divorce her because she is pregnant.
(b) That she is pregnant with another man's child.
(c) That Maxim is impotent.
(d) That she is pregnant with Maxim's child.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is depicted on the postcard set on the doctor's mantelpiece?

2. How is the narrator's entrance to the ball announced?

3. What prevents Beatrice going to London with them all?

4. Which words best describe Beatrice's Christmas party?

5. What is Mr Tubb's opinion about the boat's sinking?

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