This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Classics > The Turn Of The Screw > The Turn Of The Screw – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Turn Of The Screw Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The governess believes that the two ghosts are getting closer and will fill the children with ..... A) Bad thoughts. B) Nightmares. C) Fear. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bad thoughts. 2. The governess saw Peter Quint ..... A) Next to Miles. B) Next to the window. C) Outside the window. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Outside the window. 3. The governess was sure that Flora was ..... A) In her bedroom. B) Out. C) In the schoolroom. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Out. 4. Miles told the governess that he ..... A) Said things at school. B) Stole letters at school. C) Fought other boys at school. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Said things at school. 5. What does the governess compare Bly to? A) A street. B) A ship. C) A book. D) A dress. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A ship. 6. What in Ch. 17 suggests that the ghosts might be real? A) All the lights go out in the room at once. B) There is a gust of wind and the room shakes although the curtains do not move. C) Flora confesses to protect her brother. D) Mrs. Grose finally sees the ghosts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) There is a gust of wind and the room shakes although the curtains do not move. 7. What does The governess do to the letter the children write to their uncle? A) Keeps. B) Sends. C) Hides. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Keeps. 8. The governess says that Miles and Flora belong to ..... A) Quint and Jessel. B) Her and mrs Grose. C) To no one. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quint and Jessel. 9. The housekeeper said Miles was ..... a bad boy. A) Usually. B) Constantly. C) Never. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Never. 10. The governess knew that the children were ..... A) Alone. B) With servants. C) With the ghosts. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) With the ghosts. 11. On day when they were walking to church, Miles said he wanted to ..... A) Go to a new school. B) Talk to his uncle. C) Send Flora to a school far away. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Talk to his uncle. 12. Where does Miles ask when he can go back to school? A) On the way to the village shop. B) On the way to the village bakery. C) On the way to the village church. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) On the way to the village church. 13. What is the name of the estate where the governess arrives? A) Hill House. B) Thornfield Hall. C) Bly. D) Pemberley. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bly. 14. The governess realizes that Miles piano playing A) Was a distraction so that Flora could sneak away. B) Was a song that Peter Quint taught him. C) Was forbidden by the uncle. D) Was to bribe her to send him back to school. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was a distraction so that Flora could sneak away. 15. How does the story conclude? A) The uncle finally comes and fires the governess. B) Miles's heart stops. C) Flora runs away. D) The governess runs away. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Miles's heart stops. 16. Flora and the governess saw ..... on the other side of the lake. A) A man. B) A woman. C) A child. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A woman. 17. Miles offered to ..... for the governess. A) Light a fire. B) Play the piano. C) Send the letter. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Play the piano. 18. The governess tells Mrs Grose about her night time talk with ..... A) The children. B) Flora. C) Miles. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Miles. 19. Who volunteers to read a manuscript of a ghost story to the guests at the party? A) The narrator. B) Griffin. C) Carson. D) Douglas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Douglas. 20. Mrs Grove was ..... A) Happy. B) Afraid. C) Angry. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Afraid. 21. According to Douglas, how old was the woman when she wrote the manuscript? A) Thirty-one. B) Twenty. C) Twenty-two. D) Fifteen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Twenty. 22. Miles asked the governess about ..... at dinner. A) Mrs Grose. B) Flora. C) Miss Jessel. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flora. 23. The governess wrote a letter ..... A) But she didn't send it. B) And she sent it. C) And she gave it to Mrs Grose. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) But she didn't send it. 24. Miles went to the window and ..... A) Asked where Quint was. B) His heart stopped. C) Saw Quint. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His heart stopped. 25. Mrs Grose suggested the governess should ..... A) Leave her job. B) Write a letter for the Master. C) Fight the ghosts. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Write a letter for the Master. 26. ..... ends and ..... comes to Blu house A) Winter / Spring. B) Summer / Spring. C) Summer. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Summer. 27. She went outside and looked for the man ..... A) But she found nobody. B) And she found him. C) And she found hisfootprints. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) But she found nobody. 28. Miles promised ..... A) To tell the governess everything. B) Not to talk about the ghosts. C) Not to go out again. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To tell the governess everything. 29. The governess thought that working with Miles and Flora was ..... A) Boring and dull. B) Interesting. C) Difficult. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Interesting. 30. Flora saw the ghost ..... A) But she didn't tell the governess. B) And she told Mrs Grove. C) And she told the governess. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) But she didn't tell the governess. 31. The governess told Mrs Grose that Quint and Miss Jessel ..... A) Wanted to come back to life. B) Wanted to fill the children with evil. C) Wanted the family to leave Bly. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wanted to fill the children with evil. 32. ..... was at school but was coming home for the holidays. A) The boy. B) The girl. C) The children's uncle. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The boy. 33. When the governess asked Miles what he was doing outside ..... A) Miles said he saw a ghost. B) He said he wanted her to think he was bad. C) He said he was hot in the house. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He said he wanted her to think he was bad. 34. What is the governess's initial impression of the children? A) Confused. B) Positive. C) Indifferent. D) Negative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Positive. 35. Who does Mrs Grose want to come to Bly? A) The children's dad. B) The children's uncle. C) The children's grandfather. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The children's uncle. 36. Mrs Grose was ..... A) Their aunt. B) The governess. C) The housekeeper. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The housekeeper. 37. Where were the children at the beginning of the chapter? A) They were walking together on the grass. B) They were each one in a room. C) They were together inside the bedroom. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They were walking together on the grass. 38. According to the housekeeper, Miss Jessel and Peter Quint were both ..... A) Very nice to the children. B) Evil. C) Very friendly. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Evil. 39. The governess thought that Miles and Flora ..... A) Could see Quint and Miss Jessel. B) Were Quint and Miss Jessel's children. C) Wanted to tell their uncle about Quint and Miss Jessel. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Could see Quint and Miss Jessel. 40. The governess saw Flora by the window so ..... A) She stood next to her. B) She went to another room to see out of the window. C) She asked Flora to go back to bed. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She went to another room to see out of the window. 41. Miles ..... when the governess asked him about Flora. A) Laughed. B) Cried. C) Ran away. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Laughed. 42. Whose death is Mrs. Grose wary of discussing with the governess? A) Peter Quint. B) The previous governess. C) The children's parents. D) Miles. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The previous governess. 43. After the silence, Miles spoke A) I do not speak anymore. B) With fear. C) Calmer. D) With anger. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Calmer. 44. Their uncle was ..... the children. A) Really interested in. B) Protective of. C) Not interested in. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Not interested in. 45. What does the governess see in one of the house's towers when she is out walking? A) A strange man. B) An ambiguous shadow. C) Flora smiling. D) Miles singing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A strange man. 46. Flora went across the lake ..... A) Walking. B) By boat. C) Swimming. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Walking. 47. The governess spent her first day in the house ..... A) Cleaning her room. B) Unpacking. C) With Flora. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) With Flora. 48. The children often asked about ..... A) Quint and Miss Jessel. B) School. C) Their uncle. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Their uncle. 49. The governess puts her hand on Miles's ..... A) Head. B) Hand. C) Shoulders. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shoulders. 50. What does the governess think she hears just after meeting Mrs. Grose and Flora? A) A woman singing. B) A child crying. C) A car. D) Two children fighting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A child crying. 51. Elizabeth, who did I try to write to late at night? (Elizabeth a quien le intento escribir a ultima hora de la noche?) A) Miss Jessel. B) Mrs Grose. C) To the teacher. D) Miles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To the teacher. 52. What strange request does the governess make upon her arrival? A) To request a higher salary. B) To bring her pet cat to live with her. C) To have the children call her by a different name. D) To never be contacted by her employer, the children's uncle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To never be contacted by her employer, the children's uncle. 53. One afternoon, the governess and the children were outside when she saw ..... A) Flora jump into the lake. B) Somebody on the other side of the lake. C) Miles playing with Flora. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Somebody on the other side of the lake. 54. She was the governess's predecessor. A) Ms. Jessel. B) Flora. C) The uncle. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ms. Jessel. 55. What explanation does the governess give concerning how a small child like Flora could get in a boat, row it across a lake, and pull it into a small indentation to hide it? A) The uncle moved the boat to get Flora away from the governess. B) That at times like this she is not a small girl, and she is not alone. C) She had help from Miles the night before while they should have been sleeping. D) The boat was blown away in the storm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) That at times like this she is not a small girl, and she is not alone. 56. She told the housekeeper about the man on the tower. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 57. The housekeeper warned Miles not to spend a lot of time with ..... A) Quint. B) Miss Jewel. C) His sister. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quint. 58. The children lived with their uncle because ..... A) Their father was travelling. B) Their father was dead. C) Their father was seriously ill. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Their father was dead. 59. Miles admited ..... A) Seeing Quint. B) Taking the letter. C) Inventing things. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Taking the letter. 60. Miles, what school would you go to? (Miles, what school would he go to?) A) The same one she was in. B) A new school. C) The one on the corner of the house. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A new school. Next →Related QuizzesClassics QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesThe Turn Of The Screw Quiz 2 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books