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
Douglas

n/a

Griffin

James
3 The owner of the manuscript knew the governess
ten years ago

twenty years ago

n/a

forty years ago
4 The governess comes from
n/a

Hampshire

Dover

London
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
Bly

Essex

n/a

Bretton
7 Little Flora is
n/a

Eight years old

Five years old

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

n/a

someone singing

a woman weeping
9 The governess first sees Quint
on the stairway

in a tower

through the window

n/a
10 Miss Jessel first appears
on the stairs

in the schoolroom

n/a

at the lake
11 Quint's appearance is characterized by
sharp eyes and black hair

red hair and whiskers

n/a

an ugly face with a red scar
12 Quint died from
slipping on an icy path

drinking himself to death

n/a

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

the Caspian Sea

n/a

the Dead Sea
14 Miles plays the
n/a

piano

flute

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

The Mysteries of Udolpho

Jane Eyre

Amelia
16 Flora says she closed the curtains on her bed because
she didn't want to frighten the governess

she was cold

n/a

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

Miles

n/a

Flora
18 The governess says Miss Jessel told her
She wants forgiveness

She is an agent of evil

She suffers torments

n/a
19 The governess tells Mrs. Grose that if she were to contact the master
She would quit immediately

She would like advance warning

n/a

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."

n/a

They tell the governess they were happier "before."

They have never spoken of Quint and Miss Jessel
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

Darling

Dearest

My dear
23 Miles says he wants to return to school because
He wants "a man's education"

n/a

He wants "an escape from the countryside"

He wants "to see more life"
24 When she comes upon Miss Jessel in the schoolroom, the governess first thinks she has seen
n/a

a maid

Mrs. Grose

herself, as if in a mirror
25 Miss Jessel always wears a
tattered red bonnet

n/a

black dress

grey shawl