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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Beatrice greet the narrator?

2. What Monte Carlo attraction will Mrs Van Hopper miss by leaving early?

3. What gives the impression of a church archway?

4. What does the narrator believe to be inevitable in everyone's life?

5. What is significant about the man the narrator meets on the beach?

Short Essay Questions

1. Comment on the scene that takes place in Rebecca's room.

2. In what ways does Mrs. Van Hopper reveal her snobbishness?

3. Why is Maxim so upset when his wife comments that there would never be any gossip about her?

4. How do Maxim and his wife deal with what they reasonably expect could be their last evening together?

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

6. Is James Tabb a rounded character?

7. How appropriate is Maxim's suggestion that his wife dress for the costume ball as Alice in Wonderland?

8. In what way could Rebecca's death justly be termed a suicide?

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

10. Comment on the layers of meaning in Chapter 19 of Rebecca.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a considered essay on characterization in Rebecca. Which characters are rounded and which flat? Are any of the characters stereotypes? Comment on the importance of minor characters like Robert, Ben and Giles.

Essay Topic 2

"Rebecca contains a critique of the luxurious, idle lives of the British landed gentry." Do you agree? Is there evidence of such a critique?

Essay Topic 3

"Mrs Danvers is not the antagonist in Rebecca: the real antagonist is Rebecca de Winter." Do you agree? Why or why not? Examine the power dynamics in the novel.

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