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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 frequently argue with herself about?
(a) Whether the children are evil.
(b) Whether her employer loves her.
(c) Whether she really sees the ghosts.
(d) Whether she should mention the ghosts.

2. What does the governess decide to do?
(a) Hold an exorcism.
(b) Get married.
(c) Quit her position.
(d) Contact the children's uncle.

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

4. What does the governess tell Miles he must do if he wants to return to school?
(a) Banish the ghosts from Bly.
(b) Save up for his tuition.
(c) Beg forgiveness from the administrator.
(d) Tell his uncle of the things he had not told her.

5. What does the governess do about her suspicions concerning the ghosts?
(a) Tell her employer.
(b) Keep them to herself.
(c) Ask the children.
(d) Write to her parents.

6. What does the governess do with the letter?
(a) Burn it.
(b) Leave it on the table for Luke to post.
(c) Throw it away.
(d) Mail it.

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

8. What does the governess believe that Miles' visit to her the night before Mrs. Grose and Flora leave indicates?
(a) That he likes her.
(b) That he wants to confide in her.
(c) That he hates her.
(d) That he no longer sees the ghosts.

9. How does the governess justify her theory?
(a) Flora left a note.
(b) She just knows.
(c) She has seen Flora do it before.
(d) Flora is not a child at times but an old woman.

10. What does Flora do when she is found?
(a) Run away.
(b) Scream at her governess.
(c) Hide in the bushes.
(d) Pluck a dead fern.

11. In Chapter 22, what does the governess decide she will have to do to save Miles?
(a) Contact his uncle.
(b) Send him back to school.
(c) Beat it into him.
(d) Supply "all the nature".

12. What does Miles offer to do for the governess?
(a) Read her a story.
(b) Buy her a gift.
(c) Play the piano.
(d) Cook her dinner.

13. 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) That she is fighting something unnatural.
(b) How much she misses Mrs. Grose and Flora.
(c) Her feelings for her employer.
(d) The fact that she does not like children.

14. How does Flora react?
(a) Refuses to look at Miss Jessel and looks at the governess accusingly instead.
(b) Screams at the governess.
(c) Kicks Mrs. Grose in the shins.
(d) Runs to Miss Jessel.

15. What does the governess think the ghosts want with the children?
(a) To distrust the governess.
(b) They miss the children.
(c) To teach them about death.
(d) To fill them with evil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the governess see in the schoolroom?

2. In what does the governess find the answer to saving Miles?

3. What does Miles ask the governess in Chapter 14?

4. Why does Miles claim the governess stays at Bly after Mrs. Grose and Flora leave?

5. What does the governess suspect about the children's relationship with the ghosts?

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