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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the governess want Flora to do?
(a) Admit to seeing Miss Jessel's presence.
(b) Tell her where Miles is hiding.
(c) Go to her uncle's house.
(d) Stop yelling.

2. What happens after the governess' declaration to Miles?
(a) Miles attacks the governess.
(b) The governess faints.
(c) A gust of cold air shakes the room, and Miles shrieks.
(d) Peter Quint appears and stares at the governess.

3. What does Mrs. Grose ask the governess?
(a) When their employer is visiting Bly.
(b) Where the children are.
(c) If the governess has seen the ghosts lately.
(d) If the governess has written the letter to the employer.

4. What is the governess certain of in Chapter 13?
(a) Miles and Flora knows she is aware of the visitors.
(b) Miles and Flora are evil.
(c) She will be fired soon.
(d) She is in love with her employer.

5. What do the governess and Miles discuss after dinner in Chapter 23?
(a) What they want to do the next day.
(b) Their friendship.
(c) That they are not quite alone.
(d) How much they miss Flora.

6. What does the governess receive instead?
(a) Silence.
(b) A raise.
(c) Approval.
(d) A hug.

7. Who does the governess ask Flora about?
(a) Her uncle.
(b) Peter Quint.
(c) Miles.
(d) Miss Jessel.

8. What is the reason for Miles' request?
(a) He wants to experience more life and spend time with similar people.
(b) He wants to tell the governess about Peter Quint.
(c) He does not like the governess.
(d) He misses his parents.

9. What does Flora say about Miss Jessel the night after Mrs. Grose and the governess find her at the lake?
(a) Flora continues to deny seeing Miss Jessel.
(b) Flora admits to seeing Miss Jessel.
(c) Flora does not know how Miss Jessel is.
(d) Flora claims Miss Jessel is still alive.

10. On the evening that Mrs. Grose and Flora leave Bly, what does the governess reflect upon as she waits for Miles to join her?
(a) The fact that she does not like children.
(b) How much she misses Mrs. Grose and Flora.
(c) Her feelings for her employer.
(d) That she is fighting something unnatural.

11. What does the governess forget about?
(a) Her employer.
(b) Miles.
(c) The ghosts.
(d) Flora.

12. What does Miles claim as he invites the governess inside his room?
(a) That Peter Quint wants to see her.
(b) That she is as loud as a cavalry.
(c) That he has a crush on her.
(d) That his uncle is there.

13. What does Miles tell the governess as he prepares to go outside in Chapter 23?
(a) That he will tell her everything eventually.
(b) That he plans to see Peter Quint.
(c) That he hates his uncle.
(d) That he will never see her again.

14. Who does the governess expect to find, besides Flora?
(a) Miss Jessel.
(b) Her employer.
(c) Miles.
(d) Peter Quint.

15. In what does the governess find the answer to saving Miles?
(a) A letter from her employer.
(b) Miles' extraordinary intelligence.
(c) A book about raising children.
(d) Advice from Mrs. Grose.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the governess think Flora is?

2. What does the governess do with the letter?

3. What does the governess do with the children's letters to their uncle?

4. What does the governess decide to do?

5. What does the governess believe that Miles' visit to her the night before Mrs. Grose and Flora leave indicates?

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