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125 Cards in this Set

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What does the doctor reveal?
Rebecca was sterile
Where do Maxim and the narrator first encounter the name Baker?
in Rebecca's appointment book
Whom does Favell try to get to testify against Max?
Ben
Of what does Favell accuse Maxim of having done?
murdered Rebecca
The coroner's verdict is that...
she committed suicide.
The night she died, what did Rebecca tell Max?
She was pregnant
How did Rebecca really die?
Max shot her
What does everyone believe was the cause of Rebecca's death?
drowning
Who suggests the narrator's costume at the party?
Mrs. Danvers
How does the hheroine dress at Manderley's costume ball?
a woman in a painting
What is Jack Favell's relationship to Rebecca?
cousin
In which wing of Manderley was Rebecca's room?
the west wing
What was the name of Maxim's first wife?
Rebecca
Where does the heroine first meet Maxim de Winter
Monte Carlo
In what capacity does the heroine work for Mrs. VanHopper?
companion
T or F
Rebecca indirectly helps Maxim's cause by what she told Ben.
True
T or F
Baker's testimony is detrimental to Max's case.
False
T or F
When the narrator discovers the truth about Max and Rebecca she is horrified to be married to a murderer.
False
T or F
Colonel Julyan believes Favell's story enough to investigate the death of Rebecca further.
True
T or F
This story is written in omniscent point of view.
False
T or F
Rober is blamed by Mrs. Danvers for breaking the expensive china cupid.
True
T or F
Mrs. Danvers tricks the narrator into attempting suicide.
False
T or F
Before the flashback, Mr. and Mrs. de Winter have a calm but boring existence living away from England.
True
T or F
Max's family loved Rebecca and believed her to have "beauty, brains, and breeding--the three qualities a man wants in a woman."
True
T or F
At the inquest, Tabb says holes were deliberately put in the bottom of the boat.
True
T or F
When the narrator first meets Jack Favell, she is favorably impressed by him handsome looks and suave manners.
False
T or F
Mrs. de Winter goes to teh fancy dress ball dressed as Max suggests, Alice in Wonderland.
False
T or F
Ben accidentally sets Manderley on fire at the end of the story.
False
T or F
Rebecca was in love with Jack Favell.
False
T or F
Rebecca could never have children and was, in fact, dying with cancer.
True
T or F
Often, Mrs. de Winter feels Maxim loves her in much the same way as he loves Jasper.
True
T or F
Mrs. Van Hopper, being such a snob, is indirectly responsible for Maxim and the narrator meeting and their hasty marriage.
True
T or F
Max offers to pay Favell a large sum of money to keep quiet about his affair with Rebecca.
False
T or F
Max killed Rebecca when she taunted him about being pregnant.
True
T or F
Frank is aware that Maxim killed Rebecca and does all he can to shield him from the consequences.
True
A fictitious ancestor of the de Winters
Ethelred
an idiot
Ben
a "snake"
Rebecca
hollow eyes
Mrs. Danvers
tall, "tweedy," tactless, kind
Beatrice
a goat, a pig
Mrs. Van Hopper
a fatal portrait
Lady Caroline de Winter
"medieval in some strange, inexplicable way"
Maxim de Winter
comfortable, steady, tactful
Frank Crawley
a pet
Jasper
Max's would-be blackmailer
Favell
a villiage in the neighborhood of Manderley
Kerrith
a statue the narrator hates
Satyr
Harbor master of Kerrith
Captain Searle
recommended by Col. Julyan as a good place for a holiday
Switzerland
locale of Rebecca's trysts
London
magistrate called upon to investigate charge that Rebecca was murdered
Colonel Julyan
servant of Manderley
Robert
a doctor who has a patient listed as a "Mrs. Danvers" who is very ill
Baker
the name of Rebecca's boat
Je Reviens
Greek name for Cupid
Eros
River separating the world of the living from the world of the dead
Styx
Spins the thread of life
Clotho
tells Theseus how to escape from the Labryinth
Ariadne
Wants his wife to die so he can live
Admetus
Hercules' mother
Alcmena
Gave all good gifts to the animals so that none were left for man
Epimetheus
Asks to see Zeus in all his radiance and dies
Semele
gives mankind fire
Prometheus
has a beast, half bull, half man
King Minos
returns with the golden fleece
Jason
maze built by Deadalus for the Minotaur
Labryinth
wife of Jason
Medea
tries to seduce the son of her husband
Phaedra
warrior women
Amazons
holds the world on his shoulders
Atlas
go with Jason on a quest for the golden fleece
Argonauts
drink that makes one immortal
ambrosia
gives one his heart's desire
Golden Fleece
queen of the Amazons
Hippolyta
woman visited in her prison cell by Zeus in the form of a shower of gold
Danae
in her vanity she boasted that she was more beautiful than the daughters of Nereus and her daughter suffered for this
Cassiopeia
a king who wanted a son instead of a daughter and is killed by his grandson
Arcrisius
wants to marry Danae but doesn't want her son around
Polydectes
monsters with wings and snakes in their hair and whose look turned men to stone
Gorgons
three women who share one eye
Gray women
hero who cuts off the head of Medusa
Perseus
beautiful girl who is to be sacrificed to a sea serpent
Andromeda
this monster's head turned Polydectes and his cortiers ot stone
Medusa
queen of the Amazons
Hippolyta
the mother of Hercules
Alcmena
warrior women
Amazons
a sorceress who loved Jason
Medea
band of sailors on the Argo
Argonauts
offspring of Mother Earth and Father Heaven
Titans
the father of Zeus
Cronus
his name means "afterthough" --he gave good gifts to the animals
Epimetheus
he holds the earth on his shoulders
Atlas
monsters who had only one eye in the middle of their forehead
Cyclops
savage creatures, half man, half horse
centaurs
three sisters who gave good and evil to man at birth
fates
nine daughters of Zeus, each is patron of a special realm of the arts
Muses
god of love
Eros
a place of blessedness for good souls and heroes
Elysian Fields
the greatest hero of Greece
Hercules
a monster, half man, half bull
Minotaur
a beautiful statue which is dressed up and caressed by the sculptor who created it
Galatea
a maze built to hold a beast that is half man and half bull
Labryinth
man whose wife traded places with him to die so he could live
Admetus
builds the Labyrinth for the Minotaur
Daedalus
three-headed dog who is brought by Hercules from the underworld
Cerberus
woman brought back from Hades by Hercules and given back to her husband
Alcestis
talks to his lover through a chink in the wall
Pyramus
falls in love with a beautiful maiden but can only come to her at night in utter darkness
Cupid
Goddess who is jealous because her son falls in love with a beautiful mortal
Venus
a scultpor who carves a beautiful female statues althoguh he is a notorious woman-hater
Pygmalion
looses her cloak and a lioness "mouths" it while she flees in terror
Thisbe
her name means SOUL
Psyche
Apollo's twin sister, a lover of woodlands and the chaes, often shown with a bow
Artemis
God of War, was seen as a curse to the Greeks
Ares
His power is greater than all the other gods put together --his bird the eagle; his tree the oak
Zeus
a brother of Zeus who ruled the underworld and the dead
Hades
The daughter of Zeus alone, she sprang from his head in full armor
Athena
the ruler of the sea, he gave the first horse to man
Poseidon
the God of Fire, he was so ugly when he was born that his mother threw him out of heaven
Hephaestus
The god of Light and Truth, he first taught men the healing art; he was beautiful, poetic, and musical
Apollo
Zeus' wife and sister, she was the protector of marriage
Hera
the goddess of Love and Beauty, she is irresistible
Aphrodite
the Goddess of the Hearth, the symbol of the home
Hestia
Zeus' messenger, swift and graceful, he is often pictured with wings on his feat
Hermes