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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the governess plan to save Miles?
(a) By challenging his character in order to reach his extraordinary intelligence.
(b) By confronting him about the ghosts.
(c) By informing her employer about everything going on at Bly.
(d) By isolating him from others.

2. How does Flora react?
(a) Refuses to look at Miss Jessel and looks at the governess accusingly instead.
(b) Screams at the governess.
(c) Runs to Miss Jessel.
(d) Kicks Mrs. Grose in the shins.

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

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

5. What does Miles' action after breakfast signify on the morning that Mrs. Grose and Flora leave Bly?
(a) His love for his sister.
(b) His late night talks with Peter Quint's ghost.
(c) The change in his relationship with the governess.
(d) His intelligence.

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

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

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

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

10. 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 continues to deny seeing Miss Jessel.
(c) Flora admits to seeing Miss Jessel.
(d) Flora claims Miss Jessel is still alive.

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

12. 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.

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

14. 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) The governess' treatment of him and Flora, and how it compares to the way Miss Jessel treated them.
(c) How his parents died and his relationship with Flora.
(d) The way the governess raises him and the other bit which he will not define but claims the governess knows.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Miles claim to want?

3. Who does the governess expect to find, besides Flora?

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

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

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