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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator show she is nervous around the servants?
(a) She speaks to them in a tiny voice.
(b) She creeps around on tiptoe.
(c) She tells how her hands shake when she lights a cigarette.
(d) She stutters when she speaks to them.

2. Who does Max describe as being "invariably late for dinner"?
(a) Rebecca.
(b) King Alfred.
(c) King Ethelred the Unready.
(d) Mrs Van Hopper.

3. What is Maxim's attitude to his past life?
(a) He wants to accept his mistakes and move on.
(b) It is a place full of sacred memories that he does not want to share.
(c) He does not wish to remember it.
(d) He wants to talk about it to free himself from its ghosts.

4. How does the narrator define happiness?
(a) She says it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
(b) She says it can be achieved through hard work.
(c) She suggests happiness is unattainable.
(d) She says happiness is at Manderley.

5. About what is the narrator especially knowledgeable?
(a) Vineyards.
(b) Breeding partridges.
(c) The history of Manderley.
(d) The English countryside.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs Van Hopper ask the narrator to fetch from her room?

2. At the time the narrator bought the postcard, how much was her weekly pocket-money?

3. Who is Jasper?

4. Which birds remind the narrator of Manderley?

5. Of what is Rebecca's vase made?

(see the answer key)

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