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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maxim ask Frank to do?
(a) To take his wife in to Lanyon.
(b) To take Mrs. Danvers back to Manderley.
(c) To take his wife back to Manderley.
(d) To wait at Manderley.

2. In what way does the narrator find Frank Crawley invaluable?
(a) He helps her serve tea to the many visitors.
(b) He teaches her to ride.
(c) He helps her with accounts.
(d) He conducts an inspection of Happy Valley.

3. What does the narrator's dream suggest?
(a) That she is insecure about Maxim's feelings for her.
(b) That she would like to be Rebecca.
(c) That she is spooked by Mrs. Danvers.
(d) That she likes walking in the forest.

4. What did Rebecca think of her lovers?
(a) She laughed at them.
(b) She thought they gave her kudos.
(c) She thought they were good providers.
(d) She adored them.

5. How is the narrator's entrance to the ball announced?
(a) Frith calls for order and announces her.
(b) Via a drum roll.
(c) Some loud chords on a piano.
(d) Via a trumpet fanfare.

6. Who are Hastings and Birkett?
(a) Travel agents.
(b) A firm specializing in marine salvage.
(c) Lawyers.
(d) Police officers.

7. What has tarnished the silver dresses?
(a) Verdigris.
(b) A bottle of furniture polish.
(c) Stale perfume of roses.
(d) The azalea scent, turned stale.

8. For the narrator, what is the dreadful ending to the evening?
(a) Mrs. Danvers and Max laugh at her.
(b) Mrs. Danvers laughs at her.
(c) Max is weeping for Rebecca.
(d) Max does not come to bed.

9. What is Mr Tubb's opinion about the boat's sinking?
(a) He says Rebecca was unusually careless.
(b) He says it was deliberately scuttled.
(c) He says part of the hull was sawn off.
(d) He says someone tampered with the boat when it was moored.

10. What was Rebecca's attitude to doctors?
(a) She was indifferent to them.
(b) She despised them.
(c) She didn't trust them completely, but consulted them.
(d) She respected them.

11. Who saw Rebecca leave the note at Favell's flat?
(a) A cab driver.
(b) Rebecca's chauffeur.
(c) A housemaid.
(d) The porter.

12. What does the narrator not want her husband to know?
(a) That the nurse is not looking after his grandmother properly.
(b) That she visited his grandmother.
(c) That Beatrice endangered her life in the car.
(d) The way his grandmother behaved, wanting Rebecca.

13. What color dress does the narrator eventually wear top the ball?
(a) Blue.
(b) Yellow.
(c) White.
(d) Red.

14. What does Favell think will help Ben to remember him?
(a) The people at the asylum.
(b) A good supper.
(c) Hypnotherapy.
(d) A whipping.

15. On reflection about past events, what deduction does the narrator make?
(a) That Ben witnessed the murder.
(b) That Jack Favell knows how to get his way.
(c) That Frank witnessed the murder.
(d) That Colonel Julyan believes in the murder.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which words best describe Beatrice's Christmas party?

2. Who discovers Baker's phone number?

3. What is Mrs. Danvers doing as she tells Mrs. de Winter about the night Rebecca died?

4. What is the "frightful word of six letters" to which the narrator refers?

5. What shocks does Maxim claim to have suffered?

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