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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the governess do with the letter?
(a) Burn it.
(b) Leave it on the table for Luke to post.
(c) Mail it.
(d) Throw it away.

2. What do the governess and children avoid mentioning?
(a) Mrs. Grose.
(b) The children's parents.
(c) The employer.
(d) The ghosts.

3. What does the governess want Flora to do?
(a) Admit to seeing Miss Jessel's presence.
(b) Go to her uncle's house.
(c) Stop yelling.
(d) Tell her where Miles is hiding.

4. What does the governess feel will happen if she can convince Miles to confess?
(a) The employer will punish Miles.
(b) He will be saved and so will she.
(c) Miles will be able to return to school.
(d) The ghosts will kill Miles and the governess.

5. What does the governess think the ghosts want with the children?
(a) They miss the children.
(b) To teach them about death.
(c) To fill them with evil.
(d) To distrust the governess.

6. What does Miles claim as he invites the governess inside his room?
(a) That Peter Quint wants to see her.
(b) That he has a crush on her.
(c) That his uncle is there.
(d) That she is as loud as a cavalry.

7. What does the governess expect as a result of skipping church?
(a) Her employer to arrive.
(b) The children to disappear.
(c) To be fired.
(d) Remonstrations.

8. What does the governess want to do after her conversation with Miles?
(a) Talk to Miss Jessel.
(b) Have children.
(c) Get away from Miles.
(d) Get married.

9. What does the governess suspect about the children's relationship with the ghosts?
(a) The employer will visit Bly soon.
(b) Mrs. Grose is in love with the employer.
(c) That she will die at Bly.
(d) Miles and Flora meet Miss Jessel and Peter Quint regularly.

10. What is the governess certain of in Chapter 13?
(a) Miles and Flora knows she is aware of the visitors.
(b) Miles and Flora are evil.
(c) She will be fired soon.
(d) She is in love with her employer.

11. What does Miles offer to do for the governess?
(a) Read her a story.
(b) Cook her dinner.
(c) Play the piano.
(d) Buy her a gift.

12. What does the governess see in the schoolroom?
(a) Miles and Flora talking to Miss Jessel and Peter Quint.
(b) Miss Jessel and Peter Quint dancing.
(c) Miss Jessel sitting at the table with her head in her hands.
(d) Her schoolbooks thrown about.

13. What does Flora say about Miss Jessel the night after Mrs. Grose and the governess find her at the lake?
(a) Flora continues to deny seeing Miss Jessel.
(b) Flora does not know how Miss Jessel is.
(c) Flora claims Miss Jessel is still alive.
(d) Flora admits to seeing Miss Jessel.

14. Who does the governess ask Flora about?
(a) Her uncle.
(b) Miles.
(c) Miss Jessel.
(d) Peter Quint.

15. What does the governess tell Mrs. Grose to do at the end of Chapter 20?
(a) Take Miles to school.
(b) Take Flora to her uncle's house.
(c) Cook dinner immediately.
(d) Never speak to her again.

Short Answer Questions

1. What indicates the ghosts' presence to the governess?

2. Why does Mrs. Grose react this way?

3. How does the governess plan to save Miles?

4. What does Mrs. Grose think about the governess' hypothesis?

5. What does Miles ask the governess in Chapter 14?

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