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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Mrs. Grose see?
(a) Her employer.
(b) Peter Quint.
(c) Miss Jessel.
(d) Nothing.

3. When the governess returns to the house, what does she do?
(a) Change clothes.
(b) Write a letter to her employer.
(c) Pack her bags and leave.
(d) Sit on the steps with her head in her hands.

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

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

6. What happens after the governess asks Flora about Miss Jessel?
(a) Miss Jessel appears across the lake.
(b) Peter Quint appears across the lake.
(c) Miles appears across the lake.
(d) Flora jumps into the lake.

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

8. What does the governess decide to do?
(a) Quit her position.
(b) Hold an exorcism.
(c) Contact the children's uncle.
(d) Get married.

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

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

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

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

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

14. In what does the governess find the answer to saving Miles?
(a) Miles' extraordinary intelligence.
(b) Advice from Mrs. Grose.
(c) A letter from her employer.
(d) A book about raising children.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Miles want to do in Chapter 14?

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

3. What does the governess forget about?

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

5. What does the governess tell Miles he must do if he wants to return to school?

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