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Daphne du MaurierA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Reading Check and Short Answer questions on key plot points are designed for guided reading assignments, in-class review, formative assessment, quizzes, and more.
Reading Check
1. Why are the nettles no barrier to the narrator in Chapter 1?
2. Who is Maxim de Winter? What does Mrs. Van Hopper say about him?
3. Where do Chapters 3-6 take place?
4. How does Mr. de Winter respond whenever Mrs. Van Hopper brings Manderley into the conversation?
5. What does Maxim ask the narrator on the morning of her departure to New York?
Short Answer
Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. Why would Manderley come to the narrator in a dream? How does she describe Manderley, and what does this imply about the narrator’s relationship with the house?
2. Who cleans the table after the narrator spills the vase, and why is this significant regarding customs of class and etiquette?
3. How do the servants at the hotel treat the narrator after her lunch with Mr. de Winter? How does this compare or contrast with her treatment when she dined with Mrs. Van Hopper?
4. What is the significance of Mr. de Winter asking the narrator to call him “Maxim”? Why are the narrator’s feelings on this conflicted?
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