Rebecca Test and Gothic Novel Final
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Rebecca Plot: Choose the best answer for each question.
1. The heroine of Rebecca met Maxim de Winter here:
a. Paris
b. Manderley
c. Monte Carlo
d. Florence
2. The heroine does not go to New York with Mrs. Van Hopper
because:
a. She finds another job
b. She become ill
c. She wants to stay and study painting
d. She is going to marry Maxim
3. Maxim and the heroine stay in which wing:
a. North
b. East
c. South
d. West
4. The heroine finds this down by the bay:
a. A cottage
b. A grave
c. A cave
d. A flower garden
5. Choose which of the following is the best description of the
heroine’s life at Manderley.
a. Happy and comfortable
b. Lonely and miserable
c. Peaceful and dull
d. Sad and boring
6. Maxim becomes angry with Mrs. Danvers because:
a. She treats the heroine badly
b. She asks him about the Fancy Dress Ball
c. She breaks a piece of china
d. She lets Mr. Favell visit Manderley
7. Maxim becomes angry with the second Mrs. de Winter because:
a. She wears the same dress Rebecca had worn to the ball
b. She goes into a locked room
c. She reads he diary
d. She tells him that she is pregnant
8. Rebecca dies in this manner:
a. Giving birth to a baby
b. She drowned
c. She was shot
d. She fell of a roof
True/False.
9. Rebecca grows up in Manderley with Maxim
a. True
b. False
10. You can hear the sea from the heroine’s suite.
a. True
b. False
11. Manderley is an old castle on a hill.
a. True
b. False
12. The narrator thinks Maxim treats her like a child.
a. True
b. False
13. The Fancy Dress Ball is a success for all the guess.
a. True
b. False
14. Rebecca wants to die.
a. True
b. False
15. The Coroner says that Rebecca died in an accident.
a. True
b. False
16. Rebecca is the only true love of Maxim’s life.
a. True
b. False
Matching.
17. Maxim a. Young and shy
18. The heroine b. Evil and dishonest
19. Rebecca c. Attractive and charming
20. Mrs. Danvers d. Strong and independent
21. Mr. Favell e. Cold and jealous
22. Mrs. Van a. “a thin man with a plesant,
Hopper worried face.”
23. Frith b. “tall, broad-shouldered and very
24. Beatrice much like Maxim.”
25. Ben c. “an old man with a kind face.”
26. Frank Crawley d. “His face was fat and round and
he had thick, red lips.”
e. “her fat, heavy body swayed
above her short, fat legs.”
Gothic Elements in Rebecca: Choose the best answer for each
question.
27. All of the following are gothic elements found in Rebecca except:
a. Intense emotion
b. The supernatural
c. A happy ending
d. The use of weather to depict mood
28. One of the gothic motifs used throughout Rebecca is nature’s
power to destroy. Which of the following is not an example of
this theme:
a. Femme Fatale
b. Spirits
c. Madness.
d. Graveyards/Churches
The Author: Choose the best answer for each question.
29. The author of Rebecca is:
a. Charlotte Brontte
b. Daphne du Maurier
c. Mary Shelley
30. The author of Rebecca was born in 1907 to parents who were:
a. writers
b. actors
c. singers
31. She started writing her first book at what age?
a. 13
b. 14
c. 15
d. 16
32. The author and her family were close to many writers of the time
including J.M Barrie author of:
a. Beauty and the Beast
b. Peter Pan
c. Alice in Wonderland
33. The author published her first novel in 1931. The novel was
titled:
a. The Loving Spirit
b. Rebecca
c. The Birds
d. Jamaica Inn
34. The author’s house in southern Cornwall was the inspiration for
Manderley. The house was called:
a. Menabilly
b. Manderley
c. Monolilly
35. The author married who in 1932:
a. Frederick Arthur Browning
b. George du Maurier
c. Edgar Wallace
d. J. M. Barrie
Rebecca Vocabulary: Choose the best definition for each word.
36. eccentricities
a. normality, ordinariness
b. oddities, quirks
c. speculations, theories
37. melancholy
a. depressed, sad
b. joyful, happy
c. poor, common
38. interment
a. rebirth
b. debt
c. burial
39. metaphysical
a. unexplainable, spiritual
b. physical characteristics
c. the weak
40. antipathy
a. pity, compassion
b. hatred, dislike
c. benevolence, kindness
41. execrated
a. blessed
b. saved
c. cursed
42. diabolical
a. crazy, psychotic
b. gentle, angelic
c. cruel, devilish
43. patriarchal
a. hereditary on the father’s side
b. hereditary on the mother’s side
c. lack of hereditary
44. ravish
a. to give generously
b. to violently take
c. to take gently
The Gothic Genre: Choose the best answer for each question.
45. The gothic genre is the combination of the following:
a. Passion and emotion
b. Horror and romance
c. Blood and guts
46. The term gothic originally referred to:
a. Germanic tribes
b. Medieval architecture
c. The grotesque
47. Horace Walpole was all of the below except:
a. The author of The Castle of Otranto
b. The owner of Strawberry Hill
c. The father of the revival of the gothic tradition
d. The husband of Ann Radcliffe
48. The motif represented by a second self or alternate identify is
called:
a. The Doppelganger
b. The Fallen Man
c. The Femme Fatale
