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

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

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

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

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

6. What does Miles want to do in Chapter 14?
(a) Make the governess quit.
(b) Convince his uncle to come to Bly.
(c) Live with his uncle.
(d) Go to church.

7. 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 will tell her everything eventually.
(c) That he will never see her again.
(d) That he hates his uncle.

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

9. What does Flora do when she is found?
(a) Hide in the bushes.
(b) Run away.
(c) Scream at her governess.
(d) Pluck a dead fern.

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

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

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

13. 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 intelligence.
(c) The change in his relationship with the governess.
(d) His late night talks with Peter Quint's ghost.

14. How does the governess feel after Mrs. Grose and Flora's departure?
(a) More anxious than ever.
(b) Lost.
(c) Happy.
(d) Relieved.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the governess respond to Miles' request and reasoning?

2. In Chapter 15, what fear does the governess believe Miles sees in her?

3. What does the governess see in the schoolroom?

4. How does the governess justify her theory?

5. How does Flora react?

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