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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What flower does a guest suggest the narrator represents, in her blue dress?
(a) A cornflower.
(b) A forget-me-not.
(c) Morning glory vine.
(d) An iris.

2. What does the narrator not want her husband to know?
(a) That the nurse is not looking after his grandmother properly.
(b) The way his grandmother behaved, wanting Rebecca.
(c) That Beatrice endangered her life in the car.
(d) That she visited his grandmother.

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

4. What shocks does Maxim claim to have suffered?
(a) Learning he'd made a mistake in identificaton and finding out the boat was sunk on purpose.
(b) His mistaken identification and his sister's illness.
(c) The shock of seeing his new wife in Rebecca's dress.
(d) The discovery of the boat and the discovery of the body.

5. What is Beatrice's theory about the holes in Rebecca's boat?
(a) She thinks Communists were responsible.
(b) She thinks Ben probably did it.
(c) She doesn't believe there were any holes in the boat.
(d) She thinks Maxim was responsible.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator's dream suggest?

2. What was Rebecca's attitude to doctors?

3. The tenor of his conversation at lunch makes it clear that Maxim . . .

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

5. Who announces the arrival of Maxim's car?

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