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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 12, what does the governess feel is her primary goal?
(a) Not disturbing the master.
(b) Saving the children.
(c) Getting a new job.
(d) Banishing the ghosts.

2. Why does Miles claim the governess stays at Bly after Mrs. Grose and Flora leave?
(a) To hear him tell what she waited to hear.
(b) To scare him.
(c) To punish him.
(d) To earn more money.

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

4. The morning after the events with Flora at the lake, why does Mrs. Grose say that she no longer has any doubt about their supernatural visitors?
(a) Because Flora admitted to seeing Miss Jessel.
(b) Because Mrs. Grose can see that Flora has grown quite old.
(c) Because the ghosts visited Mrs. Grose the night before.
(d) Because Miles admitted to seeing Peter Quint.

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

6. What does Miles want to do in Chapter 14?
(a) Make the governess quit.
(b) Live with his uncle.
(c) Go to church.
(d) Convince his uncle to come to Bly.

7. What does Miles claim to want?
(a) A wife and children.
(b) To visit his uncle.
(c) What all boys wanted.
(d) To leave Bly immediately.

8. What does the governess expect as a result of skipping church?
(a) Remonstrations.
(b) To be fired.
(c) The children to disappear.
(d) Her employer to arrive.

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

10. How does the governess feel after Mrs. Grose and Flora's departure?
(a) Happy.
(b) Lost.
(c) More anxious than ever.
(d) Relieved.

11. What does the governess do with the children's letters to their uncle?
(a) Saves them in her own collection.
(b) Mails them to her employer.
(c) Tells the children that she will not send them.
(d) Burns them.

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

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

14. What does the governess suspect about the children's relationship with the ghosts?
(a) The employer will visit Bly soon.
(b) Mrs. Grose is in love with the employer.
(c) That she will die at Bly.
(d) Miles and Flora meet Miss Jessel and Peter Quint regularly.

15. How does the governess feel that summoning her employer would be viewed?
(a) Admission that she cannot handle things.
(b) Suggesting that she has been hiding things.
(c) Telling him that she is in love with him.
(d) Acknowledging that she needs help.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mrs. Grose react this way?

2. What does the governess think the ghosts want with the children?

3. What does the governess frequently argue with herself about?

4. In Chapter 22, what does the governess decide she will have to do to save Miles?

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

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