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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. Who first suggests the revival of the Manderley Fancy Dress ball?

2. What kind of flowers are in the morning room's vases?

3. What sort of car does Jack Favell drive?

4. In her former life, about what was the narrator sometimes worried?

5. What does Frank think about the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the protagonist's vision of her life in Manderley?

2. Describe the protagonist's feelings the morning after the fancy dress ball.

3. Comment on the significance of Frank's comment that humans enjoy disguises.

4. What changes in the protagonist are evident in this chapter?

5. What evidence is there of Rebecca's approach to her work of running Manderley?

6. In what ways is the protagonist of Rebecca a mystery?

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

8. Could this novel have been called Manderley, not Rebecca?

9. In what ways does Rebecca conform to the genre of romance fiction?

10. What is it that Colonel Julyan and Jack Favell seem to be blind to concerning the meaning of Rebecca's note and her visit to Dr Baker?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

"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 2

What elements of the novel Rebecca do you think are similar to the fairy-tale? In your answer, refer to characters and structure as well as subtext. Does the novel subvert the fairytale elements to any extent?

Essay Topic 3

Explain the moral problem that lies at the core of Rebecca. Do you think this has been presented satisfactorily? Why or why not? Be sure to refer closely to characters and events in the text.

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