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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the governess tell Miles she stays at Bly after Mrs. Grose and Flora leave?
(a) To see ghosts.
(b) To earn more money.
(c) Solely for Miles.
(d) To write her story.

2. What does the governess fear in Chapter 21?
(a) That Flora will get sick and die.
(b) That Miles will run away.
(c) That Flora will use the incident to portray the governess poorly to her uncle and get rid of the governess.
(d) That Mrs. Grose will die if she sees the ghosts.

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

4. What does the governess want to do after her conversation with Miles?
(a) Have children.
(b) Get away from Miles.
(c) Get married.
(d) Talk to Miss Jessel.

5. What strange things does Miles think about when he sits up at night?
(a) His education and his decision to drop out of school.
(b) How his parents died and his relationship with Flora.
(c) The way the governess raises him and the other bit which he will not define but claims the governess knows.
(d) The governess' treatment of him and Flora, and how it compares to the way Miss Jessel treated them.

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

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

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

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

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

11. 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.

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

13. How does the governess respond to Miles' request and reasoning?
(a) Miles' parents will never return.
(b) Miles cannot be friends with Peter Quint anymore.
(c) The governess does not like him either.
(d) Miles does not have his own kind, except Flora.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does the governess do with the letter?

3. On the evening that Mrs. Grose and Flora leave Bly, what does the governess reflect upon as she waits for Miles to join her?

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

5. How does the governess plan to save Miles?

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