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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 believe Miles is doing as he peers out the window after dinner?
(a) Wishing he were somewhere else.
(b) Looking for something that he cannot see.
(c) Trying to sneak away.
(d) Stalling to give Peter Quint time to attack.

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

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

4. What happens after the governess' declaration to Miles?
(a) A gust of cold air shakes the room, and Miles shrieks.
(b) The governess faints.
(c) Miles attacks the governess.
(d) Peter Quint appears and stares at the governess.

5. What does the governess want to do after her conversation with Miles?
(a) Have children.
(b) Get away from Miles.
(c) Talk to Miss Jessel.
(d) Get married.

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

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

8. What does Miles offer to do for the governess?
(a) Read her a story.
(b) Play the piano.
(c) Cook her dinner.
(d) Buy her a gift.

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

10. What is the governess certain of in Chapter 13?
(a) She is in love with her employer.
(b) Miles and Flora are evil.
(c) Miles and Flora knows she is aware of the visitors.
(d) She will be fired soon.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The morning after the events with Flora at the lake, why does Mrs. Grose say that she no longer has any doubt about their supernatural visitors?

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

3. What does Miles tell the governess as he prepares to go outside in Chapter 23?

4. Why does Miles claim the governess stays at Bly after Mrs. Grose and Flora leave?

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

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