The Turn of the Screw Quizzes

The Turn of the Screw Quiz 1

1 The friends gather telling ghost stories on
Christmas Eve

Midsummer's Eve

n/a

Hallowe'en
2 The owner of the manuscript is
Douglas

James

Griffin

n/a
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
London

Dover

n/a

Hampshire
5 The governess interviews for her job with a gentleman on
Harley Street

Baker Street

n/a

Fleet Street
6 The name of the house is
Bly

n/a

Essex

Bretton
7 Little Flora is
n/a

Eight years old

Seven years old

Five 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

n/a

in a tower

through the window
10 Miss Jessel first appears
in the schoolroom

at the lake

n/a

on the stairs
11 Quint's appearance is characterized by
sharp eyes and black hair

an ugly face with a red scar

n/a

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

slipping on an icy path

n/a

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

the Caspian Sea

the Dead Sea

n/a
14 Miles plays the
n/a

flute

violin

piano
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
she didn't want to frighten the governess

n/a

she wanted to hide from the governess

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

Miles

n/a

Flora
18 The governess says Miss Jessel told her
n/a

She suffers torments

She is an agent of evil

She wants forgiveness
19 The governess tells Mrs. Grose that if she were to contact the master
She would quit immediately

She would fire her as housekeeper

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."

They have never spoken of Quint and Miss Jessel

n/a

She overhears them talking about their "friends."
21 Before she was the housekeeper, Mrs. Grose was
The master's mother's maid

The village seamstress

n/a

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

n/a

Darling

Dearest
23 Miles says he wants to return to school because
He wants "an escape from the countryside"

He wants "a man's education"

He wants "to see more life"

n/a
24 When she comes upon Miss Jessel in the schoolroom, the governess first thinks she has seen
Mrs. Grose

herself, as if in a mirror

a maid

n/a
25 Miss Jessel always wears a
black dress

grey shawl

tattered red bonnet

n/a