The Turn of the Screw Quizzes

The Turn of the Screw Quiz 1

By Carrie-Anne Dedeo · Last reviewed July 27, 2000

1 The friends gather telling ghost stories on

Midsummer's Eve

n/a

Christmas Eve

Hallowe'en
2 The owner of the manuscript is

Douglas

Griffin

James

n/a
3 The owner of the manuscript knew the governess

n/a

ten years ago

twenty years ago

forty years ago
4 The governess comes from

Hampshire

n/a

Dover

London
5 The governess interviews for her job with a gentleman on

Harley Street

Fleet Street

Baker Street

n/a
6 The name of the house is

Bly

n/a

Bretton

Essex
7 Little Flora is

n/a

Five years old

Seven years old

Eight years old
8 On her first night in the house, the governess hears

a woman weeping

a child crying

someone singing

n/a
9 The governess first sees Quint

in a tower

through the window

on the stairway

n/a
10 Miss Jessel first appears

at the lake

on the stairs

n/a

in the schoolroom
11 Quint's appearance is characterized by

red hair and whiskers

sharp eyes and black hair

an ugly face with a red scar

n/a
12 Quint died from

n/a

falling from the tower

drinking himself to death

slipping on an icy path
13 Flora pretends that the lake is

n/a

the Caspian Sea

the Dead Sea

the Sea of Azof
14 Miles plays the

violin

flute

n/a

piano
15 On the night she sees Quint, the governess is reading

The Mysteries of Udolpho

n/a

Jane Eyre

Amelia
16 Flora says she closed the curtains on her bed because

she wanted to hide from the governess

n/a

she didn't want to frighten the governess

she was cold
17 Outside on the terrace, the governess sees

Quint

Miles

Flora

n/a
18 The governess says Miss Jessel told her

She wants forgiveness

n/a

She suffers torments

She is an agent of evil
19 The governess tells Mrs. Grose that if she were to contact the master

She would fire her as housekeeper

She would quit immediately

n/a

She would like advance warning
20 The governess is certain the children commune with the ghosts because

They tell the governess they were happier "before."

She overhears them talking about their "friends."

n/a

They have never spoken of Quint and Miss Jessel
21 Before she was the housekeeper, Mrs. Grose was

The master's mother's maid

n/a

The village seamstress

The master's mistress
22 Miles's favorite term of endearment for the governess is

My dear

n/a

Dearest

Darling
23 Miles says he wants to return to school because

He wants "to see more life"

He wants "an escape from the countryside"

n/a

He wants "a man's education"
24 When she comes upon Miss Jessel in the schoolroom, the governess first thinks she has seen

herself, as if in a mirror

a maid

n/a

Mrs. Grose
25 Miss Jessel always wears a

black dress

n/a

tattered red bonnet

grey shawl