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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs Van Hopper think the narrator will like about New York?
(a) Friends, the theatre and Central Park in June.
(b) There will be boys and jazz clubs.
(c) There will be boys, excitement and her own set of friends.
(d) The shopping in Bloomingdale's.

2. How does the narrator respond to Maxim's note?
(a) She is shocked and destroys the note.
(b) She reads it but does not send a reply.
(c) She reads it and replies at once.
(d) She is excited and hides the note from Mrs Van Hopper.

3. What sort of woman does the narrator crave to be?
(a) Older and wiser like Mrs Van Hopper.
(b) Thirty-six years old and dressed in black satin and pearls.
(c) Thirty and more grown-up.
(d) Witty and university educated.

4. To what does the word "gaucherie" refer?
(a) A type of flower.
(b) Gaucho-influenced fashion.
(c) Prettiness.
(d) Clumsiness.

5. At the time the narrator bought the postcard, how much was her weekly pocket-money?
(a) A shilling.
(b) Twopence.
(c) Fourpence.
(d) A dime.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is responsible for attending to the narrator's letters?

2. What does the narrator find in the raincoat pocket?

3. Which of these statements is true of Mrs Van Hopper?

4. What does the leather book contain?

5. What quality of the narrator's does Maxim de Winter value?

(see the answer key)

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