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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As the storm approaches, to what does the narrator liken the sea?
(a) A duckpond.
(b) A blue lake.
(c) A black lake.
(d) A black snake.

2. What costume does Max choose for the ball?
(a) Max will be dressed as Julius Caesar.
(b) Max will be dressed as a shepherd.
(c) Max never wears fancy dress; he's in evening clothes.
(d) Max will be going as Riahard III.

3. Who is Captain Searle?
(a) The captain of the foundered vessel.
(b) An army reservist and magistrate.
(c) The harbormaster at Kerrith.
(d) The diver.

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

5. The tenor of his conversation at lunch makes it clear that Maxim . . .
(a) does not admire deceit.
(b) is hungry.
(c) is becoming tired of his wife.
(d) looks forward to the time his wife becomes more sophisticated.

6. What does Maxim's Gran believe are the three most important qualities in a wife?
(a) Fertility, feistiness and fearlessness.
(b) Breeding, bearing and beauty,
(c) Breeding, brains and beauty.
(d) Archness, aristocracy and acumen.

7. What does Dr Baker reveal?
(a) That Rebecca had a serious heart condition.
(b) That Rebecca needed an operation for a malformed uterus.
(c) That Rebecca had terminal cancer.
(d) That Rebecca was pregnant.

8. In what area of London does Dr Baker live?
(a) Hampstead.
(b) Maida Vale in Central London.
(c) Palmers Green in North London.
(d) Barnet in North London.

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

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

11. Who instructs Mrs. Danvers to lock Maxim and his wife in their room for the night?
(a) Colonel Julyan.
(b) Maxim de Winter.
(c) Jack Favell.
(d) Mrs de Winter.

12. What has changed concerning the relationship between the narrator and Mrs. Danvers?
(a) The power of Mrs. Danvers has grown stronger.
(b) The power roles are reversed.
(c) The narrator has gained some power.
(d) All power has gone out of the relationship.

13. Why does Frank visit the vicar?
(a) To ask him for dinner.
(b) To arrange Rebecca's burial.
(c) To borrow his car.
(d) To confess what he knows about the murder.

14. According to Mrs. Danvers, why should Mrs. de Winter kill herself?
(a) It will make Rebecca happy.
(b) Max will never return to her because he really loves Rebecca.
(c) Because Maxim does not love her, she's not happy and a misfit at Manderley.
(d) She'll go to Heaven where there are no troubles.

15. Why does the narrator tell Frank Crawley that Maxim did not come to bed?
(a) She wants Frank to feel sorry for her.
(b) She wants him to find Max and intercede for her.
(c) She trusts him, so confides in him.
(d) She is overwrought and blurts it out unthinkingly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Rebecca's attitude to doctors?

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

3. What does the narrator realize about Frank?

4. What color is the coverlet on Rebecca's bed?

5. What reason does Mrs Danvers give for her deception over the ball dress?

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