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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maxim tell his wife to do?

2. What was Rebecca's attitude to doctors?

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

4. How many people from the ship are drowned?

5. Who is Colonel Julyan?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose TWO significant characters from the novel Rebecca. In a considered essay, discuss the way these characters and their roles in the story illustrate and/or connect with the novel's themes.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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

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