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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does the governess expect to find, besides Flora?
(a) Her employer.
(b) Miss Jessel.
(c) Miles.
(d) Peter Quint.

3. What ominous statement does Miles leave the governess with before they separate the evening that she finds him on the lawn?
(a) "I dare you to make me mad."
(b) "I do not like you."
(c) "I will write my uncle if you do not allow me to do what I want."
(d) "Think, you know, what I might do."

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

5. What does the governess see in the schoolroom?
(a) Her schoolbooks thrown about.
(b) Miss Jessel and Peter Quint dancing.
(c) Miles and Flora talking to Miss Jessel and Peter Quint.
(d) Miss Jessel sitting at the table with her head in her hands.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the governess forget about?

2. What does the governess tell Mrs. Grose to do at the end of Chapter 20?

3. What does the governess tell Mrs. Grose she did instead of attending church?

4. What does Mrs. Grose see?

5. What does the governess do with the letter?

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