Listen to chapters 16-19 and answer the questions in written form.

Chapter 16

1. Why did the narrator think that her marriage was a failure?
2. ‘This was her triumph.’ What was the triumph and whose was it?
3. Why did the narrator decide to speak to Mrs Danvers?
4. What were Mrs Danvers’ real feelings towards the narrator?
5. How was Rebecca beaten in the end?
6. Mrs Danvers said: ‘It was like a game to her.’ What was like a game to Rebecca?
7. What did Mrs Danvers try to persuade the narrator to do?
8. What was the reason for the loud explosion?

Chapter 17

1. Why were they going to send down a diver?
2. Captain Searle said: ‘The police will have to know too.’ What was it that the police would have to know?
3. Whose body was it that was lying in the boat?
4. How had Rebecca died?

Chapter 18

1. Maxim said: ‘It’s too late.’ What did he think was too late and what was the narrator’s reply?
2. What were Maxim’s feelings for Rebecca?
3. Why had Maxim not tried to divorce Rebecca?
4. Frank Crawley had wanted to leave Manderley, and Beatrice and Giles had stopped staying there. Why?
5. Maxim had gone down to the cottage with a gun. Who had he thought was there and why had he taken a gun with him?
6. What had Rebecca told Maxim that made him shoot her?
7. How had Maxim sunk the boat?
8. The narrator told Maxim: ‘You must say that you made a mistake about the other body.’ What was the other body and where was it buried?

Chapter 19

1. Who was Colonel Julyan and why had he phoned?
2. ‘It’s begun,’ said Maxim. What had begun?
3. How could Mrs Danvers become dangerous?
4. What did colonel Julyan suggest might have happened on the night that Rebecca died?
5. What had happened to the narrator in twenty-four hours?
6. What terrible word would be seen on every newspaper if the truth were known?
7. Who answered the telephone calls and met the visitors?

“Rebecca” by Daphne du Maurier

Assignment 6

Listen to chapters 20-24 and answer the questions in written form.

Chapter 20

1. Tabb, the boat-builder, told the Coroner: ‘There was nothing wrong with the boat when I last saw it.’ What question did Tabb then ask?
2. ‘I don’t trust them? Frank. They might make trouble.’

1. Who were they?
2. Where had the narrator seen them?
3. What kind of trouble might they make?

1. What would it mean if Frank came back to Manderley alone?

Chapter 21

1. What was the verdict of the Coroner’s Court?
2. Favell told Maxim: ‘I’ve a note here that might interest you.’

1. Who had written the note?
2. Where had Favell found it?
3. Why had the writer wanted to speak to Favell?
4. Why had Favell not driven down to Manderley?

1. What did Favell want Maxim to give him?
2. What was Maxim’s reply to Favell’s demand?
3. What did Favell tell Colonel Julyan about Rebecca’s death?

Chapter 22

1. Favell thought that someone had seen de Winter murder Rebecca. Who was this person?
2. What did Favell say which made Maxim so angry that he knocked him to the floor?
3. Why do you think Ben was afraid of Favell?
4. What effect did his fear of Favell have on Ben’s answers to the questions?
5. Colonel Julyan asked Mrs Danvers if it was true that Rebecca loved Favell. What was Mrs Danvers’ reply?
6. Mrs Danvers said that only one thing worried Rebecca. What was this one thing?
7. Who had Rebecca gone to see on her last visit to London?
8. ‘Frank held out a small piece of paper.’

1. Whose address was written on the paper?
2. Why was the narrator afraid of this address?

Chapter 23

1. What name had Rebecca used when she had gone to see Dr Baker?
2. What had Dr Baker told Rebecca?

Chapter 24

1. Maxim said: ‘I believe that Rebecca lied to me on purpose.’
2. What had Frank told Maxim on the phone?
3. On the way back to Manderley, the narrator had a dream. What other dream does this remind us of?
4. What had happened to Manderley?

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