Listen to chapters 12-15 and answer the questions in written form.

Assignment 2

Listen to chapters 4-7 and answer the questions in written form.

Chapter 4

1. Who decided to leave Monte Carlo and how did the narrator feel about the decision?
2. ‘Instead of going down to the reception desk, I ran up the stairs.’

1. What had the narrator been asked to do at the reception desk?
2. Why did she run up the stairs?

1. ‘Do you want a secretary?’ Why did the narrator ask this question and what was de Winter’s reply?
2. Why did the narrator feel she could not marry de Winter?
3. What did the narrator do to the book of poems?

Chapter 5

1. ‘Mrs Danvers’ orders, sir,’ said Firth.

1. Who was Mrs Danvers?
2. What had she ordered?
3. Was the narrator pleased?

1. In what part of Manderley had the servants prepared rooms for the narrator and Maxim de Winter?
2. What could not been seen or heard from their rooms?
3. When had Mrs Danvers first come to Manderley?
4. Who had made all the arrangements for the parties and visitors in the past?
5. Who was to make all the arrangements now?
6. What change had de Winter asked for in the choice of rooms for himself and the narrator?
7. What was the narrator thinking of when she said that Mrs Danvers might not like her at first?
8. What did the narrator think about as she sat in Rebecca’s chair in the library after dinner?

Chapter 6

1. How did de Winter spend his time at Manderley?
2. Who was coming to lunch?
3. How had the narrator expected the first morning at Manderley would be spent?
4. Why was the fire not lit in the library?
5. Why did the narrator not know how to find the morning-room?
6. Whose handwriting did the narrator recognize in the Guest Book?
7. ‘I’m afraid you have made a mistake,’ the narrator said.

1. Who was the narrator speaking to?
2. Why was it not a mistake to ask for Mrs de Winter?

1. Who did the narrator think of as she sat at the writing-desk in the morning-room?
2. ‘It was like the writing of a schoolgirl.’ Whose handwriting was the narrator speaking about?

Chapter 7

1. Why did the narrator run quickly out of the morning-room?
2. What part of the house did she find herself in?
3. ‘It’s very kind of you, Mrs Danvers,’ said the narrator. ‘I’ll let you know.’ What had Mrs Danvers offered to do?
4. Who were Beatrice and Giles and who was Frank Crawley?
5. The narrator asked: ‘Is it safe to swim in the bay?’ Why did everyone stop talking?
6. ‘Maxim had told me nothing.’ What had the narrator learnt nothing about from Maxim?
7. Why did Beatrice think that Mrs Danvers must hate the narrator being at Manderley?
8. ‘You are not what we expected,’ said Beatrice. what did Beatrice mean?

Describe:

- Manderley

- Mrs Danvers

- the narrator’s first morning at Manderley

- the Morning room

Describe the characters’ feelings in different situations.

“Rebecca” by Daphne du Maurier

Assignment 3

Listen to chapters 8-11 and answer the questions in written form.

Chapter 8

1. The raincoat was too big for the narrator. Why did she not have time to get another one?
2. What was meant by ‘a modern young woman’?
3. Which path did the dog, Jasper, want to take?
4. What kind of scent did the flowers in the Happy Valley have?

Chapter 9

1. Why did the narrator begin to climb over the rocks?
2. There was a small harbour in the other bay. What was floating in the water?
3. What was strange about the man on the shore?
4. Why did the narrator go into the cottage?
5. The strange man said: ‘She doesn’t go in there now. She’s gone into the sea.’ Who and what do you think he is speaking about?
6. How was de Winter affected by the narrator going into the bay and the cottage?
7. ‘The handkerchief was not mine.’

1. How had the handkerchief got into the narrator’s pocket?
2. Whose handkerchief was it?
3. What did it smell of?

Chapter 10

1. From where could the narrator hear and see the sea?
2. ‘I was a fool to bring you back to Manderley.’ When had de Winter said these words?
3. How did the narrator think she had upset Maxim?
4. The narrator felt that the visitors were comparing her with Rebecca. What did she believe they were thinking?
5. The bishop’s wife said: ‘I remember her on the night of the Ball.’

1. What was the Ball?
2. Who did she remember?
3. How had that person looked on the night of the Ball?

1. Who did the narrator ask about the Ball? Did this person seem eager to have another Ball?
2. Who had used the cottage in the bay and what sometimes happened on the shore?
3. What did Frank Crawley say the narrator’s job was at Manderley?
4. The narrator asked Frank Crawley: ‘Was Rebecca very beautiful? What was his reply?

Chapter 11

1. Who was Clarice?
2. Why did the narrator sometimes feel sorry for Mrs Danvers?
3. Why was it difficult for the narrator to forget the past?
4. How did the narrator break the china cupid? What did she do with the pieces?
5. What did Mrs Danvers think had happened to the china cupid?
6. ‘But you do act strangely sometimes,’ de Winter said to the narrator. In what way did he think she acted strangely?
7. What remark of the narrator’s made Maxim’s face go dark with anger?
8. ‘Maxim went on staring straight in front of him.’ What did the narrator believe he was thinking about?

Describe:

- the Happy Valley;

- the harbour;

- the man from the harbour;

- the cottage

Give all the information you have about Frank Crawley.

“Rebecca” by Daphne du Maurier

Assignment 4

Listen to chapters 12-15 and answer the questions in written form.

Chapter 12

1. The name of Rebecca’s boat was painted on the buoy. Why did the narrator think it was a strange name?
2. Ben said: ‘You’re not like the other one.’

1. Who was ‘the other one’?
2. What did Ben think of her eyes?
3. When did she come to the cottage?
4. Once Ben had been watching her. What had she threatened to do to Ben?

1. Who was the visitor to Manderley and who had he come to see?
2. Why did the visitor not want Maxim to know about his visit?
3. ‘I looked round the room, the most beautiful in Manderley.’

1. Whose room had it been?
2. Why was it strange that there was no dust and everything was clean?
3. What could be clearly heard from this room?
4. What smell did the narrator notice on the nightdress?

1. Mrs Danvers said: ‘I blame myself for the accident.’ What accident was she talking about?
2. What words of Mrs Danvers’ made the narrator feel terribly sick?

Chapter 13

1. Who was Jack Favell?
2. Why did de Winter shout in anger at Mrs Danvers?
3. What did the narrator feel life in Manderley was doing to her?

Chapter 14

1. Why was Maxim not going to wear any costume at the ball?
2. The narrator said: ‘I shall wear a beautiful dress at the ball.’

1. What did she tell Maxim about her costume?
2. What did she hope her dress at the Ball would do for her?

1. Which of the narrator’s words pleased Mrs Danvers?
2. Who was Miss Caroline de Winter? Who suggested that a copy of Miss Caroline de Winter’s dress should be made for the Ball?
3. Why should the narrator have to wear a wig at the Ball?

Chapter 15

1. The narrator said: ‘You’ll both have the surprise of your lives.’

1. Who was she talking to?
2. What was the surprise going to be?

1. Why did the narrator feel so pleased on the afternoon of the Ball?
2. ‘I stood at the top of the stairs, smiling. I expected everyone to laugh and clap as I walked down the stairs.’

1. How did the others react?
2. What was Maxim’s reaction?

1. Beatrice said: ‘You could not have known.’ What was it that the narrator had not known?
2. Why did the narrator remember little of the party at Manderley?

Describe:

- Jack Favell (his appearance and behaviour)

- Rebecca’s bedroom.

- The narrator’s costume.

- The Ball

“Rebecca” by Daphne du Maurier

Assignment 5

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