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

n/a

Midsummer's Eve

Hallowe'en

Christmas Eve
2 The owner of the manuscript is

Griffin

Douglas

n/a

James
3 The owner of the manuscript knew the governess

forty years ago

twenty years ago

n/a

ten years ago
4 The governess comes from

Hampshire

n/a

London

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

n/a

Baker Street

Fleet Street

Harley Street
6 The name of the house is

n/a

Bly

Essex

Bretton
7 Little Flora is

Five years old

n/a

Eight years old

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

a woman weeping

a child crying

n/a

someone singing
9 The governess first sees Quint

on the stairway

in a tower

through the window

n/a
10 Miss Jessel first appears

n/a

on the stairs

in the schoolroom

at the lake
11 Quint's appearance is characterized by

sharp eyes and black hair

an ugly face with a red scar

red hair and whiskers

n/a
12 Quint died from

n/a

drinking himself to death

slipping on an icy path

falling from the tower
13 Flora pretends that the lake is

the Dead Sea

n/a

the Caspian Sea

the Sea of Azof
14 Miles plays the

piano

violin

flute

n/a
15 On the night she sees Quint, the governess is reading

n/a

Amelia

Jane Eyre

The Mysteries of Udolpho
16 Flora says she closed the curtains on her bed because

n/a

she wanted to hide from the governess

she was cold

she didn't want to frighten the governess
17 Outside on the terrace, the governess sees

Quint

Miles

Flora

n/a
18 The governess says Miss Jessel told her

She is an agent of evil

She wants forgiveness

n/a

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

n/a

She would fire her as housekeeper

She would quit immediately

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

They have never spoken of Quint and Miss Jessel

She overhears them talking about their "friends."

n/a

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

n/a

The master's mistress

The master's mother's maid

The village seamstress
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

He wants "an escape from the countryside"

n/a

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

herself, as if in a mirror

n/a

Mrs. Grose

a maid
25 Miss Jessel always wears a

grey shawl

n/a

black dress

tattered red bonnet

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