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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the governess and children avoid mentioning?
(a) The ghosts.
(b) The employer.
(c) Mrs. Grose.
(d) The children's parents.

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

3. What does the governess fear in Chapter 21?
(a) That Flora will use the incident to portray the governess poorly to her uncle and get rid of the governess.
(b) That Mrs. Grose will die if she sees the ghosts.
(c) That Flora will get sick and die.
(d) That Miles will run away.

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

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

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

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

8. What does the governess tell Mrs. Grose to do at the end of Chapter 20?
(a) Take Miles to school.
(b) Never speak to her again.
(c) Cook dinner immediately.
(d) Take Flora to her uncle's house.

9. How does the governess feel that summoning her employer would be viewed?
(a) Acknowledging that she needs help.
(b) Telling him that she is in love with him.
(c) Suggesting that she has been hiding things.
(d) Admission that she cannot handle things.

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

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

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

13. Why does the governess say she did this?
(a) To save the children.
(b) To buy a new dress.
(c) To leave Bly.
(d) To talk with Miss Jessel.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Miles say he likes?

2. What does the governess do with the letter?

3. When the governess returns to the house, what does she do?

4. What does the governess see in the schoolroom?

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

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