The Turn of the Screw Quizzes

The Turn of the Screw Quiz 1

1 The friends gather telling ghost stories on
Midsummer's Eve

n/a

Hallowe'en

Christmas Eve
2 The owner of the manuscript is
n/a

Douglas

James

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

ten years ago

forty years ago

twenty years ago
4 The governess comes from
n/a

London

Dover

Hampshire
5 The governess interviews for her job with a gentleman on
n/a

Harley Street

Baker Street

Fleet Street
6 The name of the house is
Bretton

Bly

Essex

n/a
7 Little Flora is
Eight years old

Seven years old

Five years old

n/a
8 On her first night in the house, the governess hears
a woman weeping

n/a

someone singing

a child crying
9 The governess first sees Quint
on the stairway

n/a

through the window

in a tower
10 Miss Jessel first appears
on the stairs

n/a

at the lake

in the schoolroom
11 Quint's appearance is characterized by
n/a

sharp eyes and black hair

an ugly face with a red scar

red hair and whiskers
12 Quint died from
drinking himself to death

n/a

slipping on an icy path

falling from the tower
13 Flora pretends that the lake is
the Sea of Azof

n/a

the Dead Sea

the Caspian Sea
14 Miles plays the
violin

flute

n/a

piano
15 On the night she sees Quint, the governess is reading
The Mysteries of Udolpho

Jane Eyre

n/a

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

she didn't want to frighten the governess

she was cold

she wanted to hide from the governess
17 Outside on the terrace, the governess sees
Miles

n/a

Flora

Quint
18 The governess says Miss Jessel told her
She is an agent of evil

n/a

She wants forgiveness

She suffers torments
19 The governess tells Mrs. Grose that if she were to contact the master
She would like advance warning

n/a

She would quit immediately

She would fire her as housekeeper
20 The governess is certain the children commune with the ghosts because
She overhears them talking about their "friends."

They have never spoken of Quint and Miss Jessel

n/a

They tell the governess they were happier "before."
21 Before she was the housekeeper, Mrs. Grose was
The village seamstress

n/a

The master's mistress

The master's mother's maid
22 Miles's favorite term of endearment for the governess is
n/a

My dear

Darling

Dearest
23 Miles says he wants to return to school because
n/a

He wants "an escape from the countryside"

He wants "a man's education"

He wants "to see more life"
24 When she comes upon Miss Jessel in the schoolroom, the governess first thinks she has seen
Mrs. Grose

a maid

herself, as if in a mirror

n/a
25 Miss Jessel always wears a
black dress

grey shawl

n/a

tattered red bonnet