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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 receive instead?
(a) Silence.
(b) A hug.
(c) A raise.
(d) Approval.

2. What does the governess forget about?
(a) Miles.
(b) Her employer.
(c) The ghosts.
(d) Flora.

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

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

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

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

7. What strange things does Miles think about when he sits up at night?
(a) How his parents died and his relationship with Flora.
(b) The way the governess raises him and the other bit which he will not define but claims the governess knows.
(c) His education and his decision to drop out of school.
(d) The governess' treatment of him and Flora, and how it compares to the way Miss Jessel treated them.

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

9. 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.

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

11. 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 intelligence.
(c) His love for his sister.
(d) The change in his relationship with the governess.

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

13. 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 disbelieves that a child can take the boat and hide it.
(d) She believes the governess.

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

15. What does the governess frequently argue with herself about?
(a) Whether she really sees the ghosts.
(b) Whether the children are evil.
(c) Whether her employer loves her.
(d) Whether she should mention the ghosts.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 12, what does the governess feel is her primary goal?

4. What ominous statement does Miles leave the governess with before they separate the evening that she finds him on the lawn?

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

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