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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

5. What does the governess ask Miles to answer before he can go outside at the end of Chapter 23?
(a) Where Peter Quint is.
(b) Whether he took her letter to his uncle.
(c) When he will return.
(d) Why he was expelled.

Short Answer Questions

1. What indicates the ghosts' presence to the governess?

2. How does the governess justify her theory?

3. What does Flora say about Miss Jessel the night after Mrs. Grose and the governess find her at the lake?

4. How does the governess plan to save Miles?

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

(see the answer keys)

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