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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 children's letters to their uncle?
(a) Saves them in her own collection.
(b) Tells the children that she will not send them.
(c) Mails them to her employer.
(d) Burns them.

2. What does Mrs. Grose ask the governess?
(a) If the governess has seen the ghosts lately.
(b) When their employer is visiting Bly.
(c) If the governess has written the letter to the employer.
(d) Where the children are.

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

4. In Chapter 15, what fear does the governess believe Miles sees in her?
(a) Fear of churches.
(b) Fear of ghosts.
(c) Fear of dealing with his expulsion from school.
(d) Fear of being fired.

5. How does the governess plan to save Miles?
(a) By challenging his character in order to reach his extraordinary intelligence.
(b) By informing her employer about everything going on at Bly.
(c) By isolating him from others.
(d) By confronting him about the ghosts.

6. What ominous statement does Miles leave the governess with before they separate the evening that she finds him on the lawn?
(a) "I do not like you."
(b) "Think, you know, what I might do."
(c) "I dare you to make me mad."
(d) "I will write my uncle if you do not allow me to do what I want."

7. What does the governess fear in Chapter 21?
(a) That Miles will run away.
(b) That Flora will use the incident to portray the governess poorly to her uncle and get rid of the governess.
(c) That Mrs. Grose will die if she sees the ghosts.
(d) That Flora will get sick and die.

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

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

10. What does Miles ask the governess in Chapter 14?
(a) When the governess is leaving.
(b) When he can return to school.
(c) When his parents are coming back.
(d) Why Peter Quint cannot be his friend.

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

12. Who does the governess walk beside on the way to church?
(a) Mrs. Grose.
(b) Miles.
(c) Flora.
(d) Peter Quint.

13. What does the governess tell Miles he must do if he wants to return to school?
(a) Tell his uncle of the things he had not told her.
(b) Save up for his tuition.
(c) Banish the ghosts from Bly.
(d) Beg forgiveness from the administrator.

14. 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 claims Miss Jessel is still alive.
(c) Flora admits to seeing Miss Jessel.
(d) Flora does not know how Miss Jessel is.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the governess and Miles discuss after dinner in Chapter 23?

2. What does the governess feel will happen if she can convince Miles to confess?

3. What does the governess forget about?

4. What does the governess think the ghosts want with the children?

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

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