SparkNotes: The Turn of the Screw: Quiz

1. What is the governess’s relationship to Douglas?

(A) He is her father

(B) She was his sister’s governess

(C) She was his wife’s sister

(D) He is her husband’s brother

2. Whom does the governess see peering into the dining-room window on a Sunday?

(A) Flora

(B) Mrs. Grose

(C) Miss Jessel

(D) Peter Quint

3. Whom does Mrs. Grose see peering into the dining-room window on a Sunday?

(A) Flora

(B) The governess

(C) Miss Jessel

(D) Peter Quint

4. Who claims not to see Miss Jessel at the lake?

(A) Flora and Mrs. Grose

(B) The governess

(C) Miles

(D) Miles and Flora

5. What does Miles do to “distract” the governess while Flora wanders off?

(A) He rattles off mathematical proofs

(B) He plays cards

(C) He plays the piano

(D) He dances with her

6. What does Miles bring up as he is walking to church with the governess?

(A) Ghosts

(B) Learning Italian

(C) His relationship with Peter Quint

(D) School

7. What does Miles confess to stealing?

(A) The governess’s letter to her employer

(B) The governess’s candle

(C) Flora’s hairbrush

(D) The governess’s manuscript

8. Whom does the governess see out on the lawn one night?

(A) Peter Quint

(B) Miles

(C) Flora

(D) Miss Jessel

9. Where do Mrs. Grose and the governess find Flora?

(A) On the opposite shore of the lake

(B) Out on the lawn

(C) In the governess’s bedroom

(D) In the kitchen

10. What is a key factor in the governess’s agreement to take the position at Bly?

(A) Her employer’s good looks

(B) She needs money

(C) Her father has died, and she has nowhere else to go

(D) She was a friend of Miss Jessel

11. Whom does the governess see sitting at the bottom of the stairs?

(A) Peter Quint

(B) Miles

(C) Miss Jessel

(D) Flora

12. At whom does the governess scream in the schoolroom?

(A) Peter Quint

(B) Miles

(C) Miss Jessel

(D) Flora

13. What does Quint vanish into on the staircase?

(A) A dimming of the lights

(B) Silence

(C) The wall

(D) The floor

14. Whom does Miles first name when the governess points out a vision in the last scene?

(A) Peter Quint

(B) Miles

(C) Miss Jessel

(D) Flora

15. Who narrates the prologue?

(A) Douglas

(B) Griffin

(C) The governess

(D) An anonymous narrator

16. Where is Bly?

(A) Essex

(B) London

(C) Suffolk

(D) Massachusetts

17. What does the headmaster’s letter say?

(A) The school cannot keep Miles

(B) Miles has been bad

(C) Miles is too young to go to school here

(D) Miles has won an award

18. According to Miles, why can’t he return to school?

(A) He harmed other boys

(B) He said things

(C) He initiated inappropriate relationships

(D) He wrote profanities on the bathroom walls

19. Where does the governess find Flora when she realizes Flora is out of bed?

(A) Out on the lawn

(B) With Miss Jessel

(C) Under the window blind

(D) In Miles’s room

20. Why does Flora leave Bly?

(A) She is going to school

(B) She is going to a friend’s house

(C) She wants to travel the country

(D) She is sick