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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Miles want to do in Chapter 14?
(a) Convince his uncle to come to Bly.
(b) Go to church.
(c) Live with his uncle.
(d) Make the governess quit.

2. Why does Mrs. Grose react this way?
(a) She does not care about the governess.
(b) She is not feeling very well.
(c) She was not at church either.
(d) The children told her not to say anything.

3. What does the governess ask Miles to answer before he can go outside at the end of Chapter 23?
(a) Why he was expelled.
(b) When he will return.
(c) Whether he took her letter to his uncle.
(d) Where Peter Quint is.

4. How does the governess justify her theory?
(a) She has seen Flora do it before.
(b) Flora left a note.
(c) She just knows.
(d) Flora is not a child at times but an old woman.

5. In Chapter 12, what does the governess feel is her primary goal?
(a) Banishing the ghosts.
(b) Not disturbing the master.
(c) Getting a new job.
(d) Saving the children.

6. What do the governess and Miles discuss after dinner in Chapter 23?
(a) What they want to do the next day.
(b) Their friendship.
(c) How much they miss Flora.
(d) That they are not quite alone.

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

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

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

10. What does the governess tell Mrs. Grose she did instead of attending church?
(a) Pack her bags.
(b) Go shopping.
(c) Return to the house.
(d) Visit her employer.

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

12. What does the governess receive instead?
(a) Silence.
(b) A raise.
(c) Approval.
(d) A hug.

13. After the incident, what does the governess decide?
(a) That she should seek mental help.
(b) That she must stay at Bly.
(c) That the children are doomed.
(d) That she must escape.

14. 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?
(a) Because Flora admitted to seeing Miss Jessel.
(b) Because the ghosts visited Mrs. Grose the night before.
(c) Because Mrs. Grose can see that Flora has grown quite old.
(d) Because Miles admitted to seeing Peter Quint.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 22, what does the governess decide she will have to do to save Miles?

2. What does Flora do when she is found?

3. What is the governess certain of in Chapter 13?

4. What does the governess want to do after her conversation with Miles?

5. What does Miles' action after breakfast signify on the morning that Mrs. Grose and Flora leave Bly?

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