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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what does the governess find the answer to saving Miles?
(a) Miles' extraordinary intelligence.
(b) A book about raising children.
(c) Advice from Mrs. Grose.
(d) A letter from her employer.

2. Why does Miles claim the governess stays at Bly after Mrs. Grose and Flora leave?
(a) To punish him.
(b) To hear him tell what she waited to hear.
(c) To earn more money.
(d) To scare him.

3. What is the reason for Miles' request?
(a) He wants to experience more life and spend time with similar people.
(b) He misses his parents.
(c) He wants to tell the governess about Peter Quint.
(d) He does not like the governess.

4. What does Mrs. Grose object to?
(a) Flora leaving the house without her hat.
(b) The presence of the ghosts.
(c) The governess quitting her job.
(d) Searching for Flora.

5. How does the governess respond to Miles' request and reasoning?
(a) Miles does not have his own kind, except Flora.
(b) The governess does not like him either.
(c) Miles cannot be friends with Peter Quint anymore.
(d) Miles' parents will never return.

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

7. Who does the governess expect to find, besides Flora?
(a) Her employer.
(b) Miles.
(c) Peter Quint.
(d) Miss Jessel.

8. What does Miles' action after breakfast signify on the morning that Mrs. Grose and Flora leave Bly?
(a) His late night talks with Peter Quint's ghost.
(b) His love for his sister.
(c) His intelligence.
(d) The change in his relationship with the governess.

9. What does the governess decide to do?
(a) Contact the children's uncle.
(b) Get married.
(c) Hold an exorcism.
(d) Quit her position.

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

11. What does the governess do about her suspicions concerning the ghosts?
(a) Write to her parents.
(b) Keep them to herself.
(c) Ask the children.
(d) Tell her employer.

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

13. How does the governess feel that summoning her employer would be viewed?
(a) Telling him that she is in love with him.
(b) Suggesting that she has been hiding things.
(c) Acknowledging that she needs help.
(d) Admission that she cannot handle things.

14. What is the governess unable to do that night?
(a) Sleep.
(b) See the ghosts.
(c) Eat her dinner.
(d) Write a letter to her employer.

15. Why is the governess sad?
(a) Because the governess gets fired.
(b) Because Flora likes Peter Quint better than the governess.
(c) Because Miles tells her that he hates her.
(d) Because the governess has lost Flora to Miss Jessel's interference.

Short Answer Questions

1. The morning after the events with Flora at the lake, why does Mrs. Grose say that she no longer has any doubt about their supernatural visitors?

2. What happens after the governess' declaration to Miles?

3. Who does the governess walk beside on the way to church?

4. What does the governess want Flora to do?

5. What does the governess believe Miles is doing as he peers out the window after dinner?

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