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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 feel will happen if she can convince Miles to confess?
(a) The ghosts will kill Miles and the governess.
(b) He will be saved and so will she.
(c) The employer will punish Miles.
(d) Miles will be able to return to school.

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

3. In Chapter 22, what does the governess decide she will have to do to save Miles?
(a) Send him back to school.
(b) Beat it into him.
(c) Supply "all the nature".
(d) Contact his uncle.

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

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

6. 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 Flora will get sick and die.
(d) That Mrs. Grose will die if she sees the ghosts.

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

8. 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) Burns them.
(d) Mails them to her employer.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What strange things does Miles think about when he sits up at night?

2. On the evening that Mrs. Grose and Flora leave Bly, what does the governess reflect upon as she waits for Miles to join her?

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

4. What does the governess do about her suspicions concerning the ghosts?

5. How does the governess justify her theory?

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