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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Manderley's drive different from how the narrator imagined it?

2. What annoys and astonishes Mrs Van Hopper?

3. What does Maxim tell his wife about the east wing?

4. In her former life, about what was the narrator sometimes worried?

5. About what is the narrator especially knowledgeable?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the effect of the description of the London streets in Chapter 26 of Rebecca?

2. What are safe topics for the protagonist to read aloud to her husband?

3. Comment on the scene that takes place in Rebecca's room.

4. What do the words "We have no secrets now" imply?

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

6. Comment on the significance of Frank's comment that humans enjoy disguises.

7. Could this novel have been called Manderley, not Rebecca?

8. Why does the protagonist think measles are a blessing in the context of the inquest?

9. Comment on the protagonist's feelings in Chapter 17 of Rebecca.

10. What evidence is there of Rebecca's approach to her work of running Manderley?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

"Rebecca is a novel that could not exist without the British class system of the 1930s." Discuss with close reference to relationships depicted in the novel.

Essay Topic 2

Did Rebecca de Winter deserve to die? Should her husband have been punished (through the law) for her murder? Examine the moral dilemma. Is there indeed a moral dilemma at all? Write the text of a speech you might give to some law students.

Essay Topic 3

"Rebecca contains a critique of the luxurious, idle lives of the British landed gentry." Do you agree? Is there evidence of such a critique?

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