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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does the governess respond to Miles' request and reasoning?
(a) Miles' parents will never return.
(b) The governess does not like him either.
(c) Miles cannot be friends with Peter Quint anymore.
(d) Miles does not have his own kind, except Flora.
2. In Chapter 12, what does the governess feel is her primary goal?
(a) Banishing the ghosts.
(b) Getting a new job.
(c) Not disturbing the master.
(d) Saving the children.
3. What does the governess decide to do?
(a) Contact the children's uncle.
(b) Quit her position.
(c) Hold an exorcism.
(d) Get married.
4. What does the governess tell Mrs. Grose she did instead of attending church?
(a) Pack her bags.
(b) Return to the house.
(c) Visit her employer.
(d) Go shopping.
5. How does the governess justify her theory?
(a) She just knows.
(b) She has seen Flora do it before.
(c) Flora is not a child at times but an old woman.
(d) Flora left a note.
6. What does the governess fear in Chapter 21?
(a) That Miles will run away.
(b) That Flora will use the incident to portray the governess poorly to her uncle and get rid of the governess.
(c) That Flora will get sick and die.
(d) That Mrs. Grose will die if she sees the ghosts.
7. Who does the governess expect to find, besides Flora?
(a) Miles.
(b) Her employer.
(c) Peter Quint.
(d) Miss Jessel.
8. What ominous statement does Miles leave the governess with before they separate the evening that she finds him on the lawn?
(a) "I do not like you."
(b) "Think, you know, what I might do."
(c) "I dare you to make me mad."
(d) "I will write my uncle if you do not allow me to do what I want."
9. In what does the governess find the answer to saving Miles?
(a) A book about raising children.
(b) Advice from Mrs. Grose.
(c) A letter from her employer.
(d) Miles' extraordinary intelligence.
10. What does the governess do about her suspicions concerning the ghosts?
(a) Tell her employer.
(b) Ask the children.
(c) Write to her parents.
(d) Keep them to herself.
11. After the incident, what does the governess decide?
(a) That she must stay at Bly.
(b) That she should seek mental help.
(c) That she must escape.
(d) That the children are doomed.
12. What does the governess do with the letter?
(a) Burn it.
(b) Mail it.
(c) Leave it on the table for Luke to post.
(d) Throw it away.
13. What does the governess feel will happen if she can convince Miles to confess?
(a) Miles will be able to return to school.
(b) The employer will punish Miles.
(c) The ghosts will kill Miles and the governess.
(d) He will be saved and so will she.
14. Where does the governess think Flora is?
(a) In the classroom.
(b) At her uncle's house.
(c) At the lake.
(d) In her bed.
15. How does the governess believe Miles will use her fear?
(a) To cause her death.
(b) To make her quit.
(c) To obtain his freedom.
(d) To contact Peter Quint.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Mrs. Grose object to?
2. Why does the governess say she did this?
3. What does the governess think the ghosts want with the children?
4. What do the governess and Miles discuss after dinner in Chapter 23?
5. What do the governess and children avoid mentioning?
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