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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which things are permanent, according to the narrator?
(a) Manderley and Rebecca.
(b) The brown lilac and the Happy Valley.
(c) Fear and suffering.
(d) The bare little hotel bedroom and the dream.

2. What does Maxim tell Mrs Van Hopper about his valet?
(a) He says that he overpays his valet.
(b) He says his valet gossips.
(c) He says he does not like travelling alone and the valet is company.
(d) He says he does not have a valet.

3. What interrupts Mrs Van Hopper's conversation with Max de Winter?
(a) Mrs Van Hopper falls ill.
(b) Max spills coffee all over the narrator.
(c) A page-boy brings a letter for Maxim.
(d) A page-boy tells Mrs Van Hopper that a dressmaker is waiting.

4. Where does Maxim propose to take the narrator for their honeymoon?
(a) Venice.
(b) Manderley.
(c) New York.
(d) Verona.

5. In her dream, to whom does the narrator call?
(a) Maxim de Winter.
(b) Mrs Van Hopper.
(c) Rebecca.
(d) The lodge-keeper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What object does Ben attempt to hide from the narrator?

2. What special privilege does Max extend to the narrator?

3. Which birds remind the narrator of Manderley?

4. Why is the meal with Mrs Van Hopper eaten in silence?

5. On what floor of the hotel building is Max's suite?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the protagonist feel like crying when she receives the set of books, A History of Painting?

2. Is it reasonable for Mrs. Danvers to blame herself for Rebecca's death?

3. How does the new Mrs. de Winter play into Mrs. Danvers' hands during their conversation.

4. In what ways does Mrs. Van Hopper reveal her snobbishness?

5. What is it that Colonel Julyan and Jack Favell seem to be blind to concerning the meaning of Rebecca's note and her visit to Dr Baker?

6. In what ways does Rebecca conform to the genre of romance fiction?

7. What suggests that, when the story opens, the protagonist is in a climate different from that of the British Isles?

8. What is Maxim de Winter's attitude to Mrs. Van Hopper?

9. What factor does the narrator feel has been pivotal to the way her life has turned out?

10. Why and in what way does the protagonist behave uncharacteristically?

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