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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The tenor of his conversation at lunch makes it clear that Maxim . . .
(a) is hungry.
(b) does not admire deceit.
(c) looks forward to the time his wife becomes more sophisticated.
(d) is becoming tired of his wife.

2. What is the "frightful word of six letters" to which the narrator refers?
(a) Mother.
(b) Merkin.
(c) Murder.
(d) Mauler.

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

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

5. What prevents Beatrice going to London with them all?
(a) Roger can't be left as he is sick and doesn't like the nurse.
(b) Her car is in for service.
(c) Giles is ill and Beatrice is suspicious of the nurse.
(d) Roger wants her to watch him play cricket.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the shops in Layton closed?

2. In her morning reverie, how does the protagonist/narrator depict life at Manderley?

3. Who instructs Mrs. Danvers to lock Maxim and his wife in their room for the night?

4. Why does the narrator tell Frank Crawley that Maxim did not come to bed?

5. What does Maxim tell his wife to do?

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