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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 12, what does the governess feel is her primary goal?
(a) Not disturbing the master.
(b) Getting a new job.
(c) Banishing the ghosts.
(d) Saving the children.

2. What does the governess suspect about the children's relationship with the ghosts?
(a) Mrs. Grose is in love with the employer.
(b) That she will die at Bly.
(c) Miles and Flora meet Miss Jessel and Peter Quint regularly.
(d) The employer will visit Bly soon.

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

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

5. What indicates the ghosts' presence to the governess?
(a) A cold burst of wind.
(b) The appearance of the ghosts.
(c) A sudden hush and an abrupt change in activity.
(d) A loud noise and the children's cries.

6. What does Miles tell the governess as he prepares to go outside in Chapter 23?
(a) That he plans to see Peter Quint.
(b) That he hates his uncle.
(c) That he will tell her everything eventually.
(d) That he will never see her again.

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

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

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

10. Where does the governess search for Flora?
(a) In her bedroom.
(b) At her uncle's house.
(c) At the lake.
(d) In the classroom.

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

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

13. What does the governess receive instead?
(a) A hug.
(b) A raise.
(c) Silence.
(d) Approval.

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

15. How does the governess believe Miles will use her fear?
(a) To obtain his freedom.
(b) To make her quit.
(c) To contact Peter Quint.
(d) To cause her death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the governess frequently argue with herself about?

2. What is the governess unable to do that night?

3. What does Miles ask the governess in Chapter 14?

4. What does the governess want to do after her conversation with Miles?

5. Who does the governess ask Flora about?

(see the answer keys)

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