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

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

3. Who does Miles say he likes?
(a) Mrs. Grose and Luke.
(b) Peter Quint and Miss Jessel.
(c) His uncle and Flora.
(d) Flora and the governess.

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

5. What does Mrs. Grose think about the governess' hypothesis?
(a) She decides to return to Bly.
(b) She thinks the governess is crazy.
(c) She believes the governess.
(d) She disbelieves that a child can take the boat and hide it.

6. What does Miles claim to want?
(a) What all boys wanted.
(b) A wife and children.
(c) To leave Bly immediately.
(d) To visit his uncle.

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

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

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

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

11. Where does the governess think Flora is?
(a) At her uncle's house.
(b) In her bed.
(c) At the lake.
(d) In the classroom.

12. Why does the governess tell Miles she stays at Bly after Mrs. Grose and Flora leave?
(a) To see ghosts.
(b) Solely for Miles.
(c) To earn more money.
(d) To write her story.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the governess believe that Miles' visit to her the night before Mrs. Grose and Flora leave indicates?

2. How does the governess plan to save Miles?

3. What does the governess forget about?

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

5. Why does the governess feel that she can take care of things after Mrs. Grose and Flora leave Bly?

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