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Questions on the Text Prologue 1. According to Eleanor, what was especially frightening about the first ghost story? The fact that the ghost first appeared to the small child makes the story especially frightening. 2. How did Douglas know Catherine Blake, and when did they first meet? Douglas knew Catherine Blake thanks to Eleanor. They first met in summer. 3. What was the condition that came with the job of governess, and why did Lord Henry demand it? The person who became governess to Miles and Flora would be completely responsible for them. Because he didn’t want to be worried by any problems or questions about the children. Chapter 1 1. What was Catherine’s first impression of Little Flora? She thought Flora was so beautiful and a little timid. 2. What two things were strange on Catherine’s first evening at Bly? The first one was Mrs. Grose’s happiness, and the other one was that while she was standing at the window before going to bed she heard the cry of a child in the distance and then the sound of footsteps outside her door. Chapter 2 1. What did the headmaster say in his letter to Lord Henry, and what reason did he give for this decision? He said Miles’s couldn’t return to school after the holidays. He didn’t give any reasons. 2. How do we know that Mrs. Grose felt uncomfortable when she was talking about the previous governess? Because there was something strange on her words. 3. What did Catherine notice about Miles when she first met him at the train station? She first noticed that he was as lovely as his sister 4. How did Catherine fell about the two children and the place where she was living? She felt in love with Flora and Miles and she felt luckily about living on that beautiful place Chapter 3 1. Describe Catherine’s first meeting with the stranger at the top of the tower and say how she felt. She went for a long walk and it was nearly dark when she decided to return home. Suddenly, she saw a man standing at the top of the tower that she had visited with Flora days before. At first, she thought it was Lord Henry, but then she looked again and she realized it wasn’t her employer. It was someone who she had never seen before. The man was staring down at her from the top of the tower. He didn’t move, he just continued to stare at her. There was a strangely silent around her. At the end,

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without moving his eyes from her face, he walked slowly to the other side of the tower. Then he turned and disappears. Catherine felt very cold. What two possible explanations did Catherine give for the man on the tower? The first one it was the servants playing a trick on her, and the second one that the man was a traveller who was curious about old mansion and he had entered in the house and left again without anybody else seeing him. What did Catherine see when she went into the dining room to get her gloves? She saw the same man that she had seen in the tower. How did Catherine describe the stranger to Mrs Grose? She told her he was tall with dark hair, and a long pale face. His eyebrows were thick and dark. He gets a small eyes and a wide mouth with thin lips. He was elegantly dressed. According to Mrs Grose, who was the stranger, what was his connection to Bly and what happened to him? She said it was Peter Quint. He was Lord Henry’s assistant for years. Then she told her that Quint was there with Lord Henry last year and when Lord Henry left Quint stayed there with them and supervised some changes that Lord Henry wanted in the house. At the end, she told that he had gone too but now he’s dead.

Chapter 4 1. Describe the relationship between Quint and Miss Jessel. Miss Jessel loved him, but he just laughed at her and finally Quint ended their relationship. 2. How did Flora react after she saw the two figures at the lake? Why was this strange? She didn’t seem scared at all. It was this strange because after Catherine saw Flora’s reaction she looked across the lake again and the two figures were still standing there, watching them. Chapter 5 1. In Catherine’s opinion who was the woman at the lake? In Catherine’s opinion the woman was the other governess, the dead one. 2. How did Catherine describe Miss Jessel to Mrs Grose? She described her like a possessive woman; she wanted to have Flora for herself by the way she was looking at her. Then she told her that Miss Jessel was dressed in black from head to foot and hat she looked poor, but she was very beautiful but evil. 3. Why did Quint go out with Miles so often? Because Quint used this to be with Miss Jessel. Chapter 6 1. What will Catherine do if there are any more ‘ghostly visits’? He will try to stop them to visit the children. 2. How did the children spend their days with Catherine?

They particularly loved toward her. They often kissed her, bringing her books and reading to her. They all played games and read plays. 3. Why hadn’t Catherine tried to find a new school for Miles? Because she was too busy with the mysterious events at Bly, but she couldn’t sent Miles to any school until she had solved this mystery. Chapter 7 1. What did Catherine understand after she looked into Quint’s eyes? She realized that if she couldn’t stand and stare at him for a whole minute without fear, she would never be afraid of him again. 2. What happened when Catherine returned to her room? Flora wasn’t on the bed. 3. Why didn’t Catherine confront Flora about the ghost? Because she thought she would lie and deny everything. Chapter 8 1. Describe what Flora was doing when Catherine woke up in the middle of the night. She was standing behind the curtain again, looking out of the window. 2. Why was Catherine surprised when the moon moved from behind the cloud and she could see more clearly? Because it wasn’t the woman from the lake, it was Miles. 3. What was Miles’ explanation for his ‘little trick’? Because he didn’t like Catherine think he’s always good. Chapter 9 1. In Catherine’s opinion, what did the ghost want, and how were they trying to achieve it? The ghost wanted to possess Miles and Flora. They appeared to the children from across the lake, or from the tower, and they looked for them through the window. They were trying to call the children to them. 2. What two decisions did Catherine make in order to help the children? The first one was that the children mustn’t be allowed to communicate with their ghostly visitors any more, and the second one was that their uncle must come and take them away from here. 3. On what occasion did Males behave badly? It was when Quint was living in Bly and he was spending a lot of time with Miles. First, he lied at Mrs Grose and the he shouted at her. Chapter 10 1. What did Miles ask Catherine while they were walking to church together and what was her reply?

Miles asked Catherine when he was going to come back school. Catherine asked him that he didn’t need to go to a new school because she could teach him and gave him a very good education. 2. What did Miles suggest and why did it make Catherine feel cold? He suggested talking with his uncle about it. Catherine felt cold because Miles was reading her mind. 3. Describe what Catherine saw when she went into her room. What was her first thought about it? Catherine saw a woman who was sitting with her head in her hand and seemed to be very tired, but she didn’t move or turn when Catherine came into the room. At first she thought it was a servant taking the opportunity of her absence to write a letter.

Chapter 11 1. When did the children try and ‘please’ Catherine? When were they really trying to do? When they felt one of the ghosts near. When they felt that she was getting too close to their secret. 2. Catherine thought Miss Jessel ‘said things without words’. What were the things? Those things are that she wanted to share her suffering with Flora. She didn’’t want to be alone with her pain. 3. What two decisions did Catherine make? She was not leaving Bly and she was going to write to Lord Henry and told him everything. 4. In your opinion, was Catherine becoming possessed and imagine things, or were things at Bly really as strange as she thought? In my opinion, I think that Catherine was becoming possessed and imagine things. 5. Why do you think Miles wanted his uncle to take him away from Bly? Because he knew that something wrong was happening Chapter 12 1. What happened after Miles started to play the piano, and what was the result of this? He played so wonderfully that Catherine lost all sense of time. The result of that was that when Catherine woke up she realized that Flora wasn’t there. 2. Why do you think Catherine was not frightened of Quint anymore? Because she knew how to destroyed him. 3. Why didn’t Mrs Grose believe that Flora had taken the boat? Because she thought that Flora couldn’t move the boat alone. It was very heavy. Chapter 13 1. What did Flora do while Mrs Grose was embracing her, and what did Catherine understand from this?

Flora started at Catherine over her shoulder and let the flower fall to the ground. Catherine understood that she was trying to say that there was no point pretending anymore. 2. Why was Catherine happy to see Miss Jessel at the lake? Because she wasn’t imagine things and she wasn’t crazy. 3. Why did Catherine’s happiness disappear so quickly? Because Flora and Miss Grose couldn’t see her. 4. What finally made Catherine feel she had lost Flora? When Flora told her she couldn’t see nobody and that she thought Catherine was crazy. Chapter 14 1. What suggestion did Catherine make to Mrs Grose? She suggested to Miss Grose took Flora away from Bly, took her to her uncle in London. 2. What happened to Catherine’s letter to Lord Henry? Miles stole it because he wanted to see what Catherine wrote to his uncle. 3. How will Mrs Grose help Catherine? Doing what Catherine wanted. Chapter 15 1. Why was Miles anxious? Because he saw something through the window. 2. What happened after Catherine asked Miles about the letter? Catherine realized they weren’t alone. Chapter 16 1. Who was the ‘final battle’ between, and what did each side want? The final battle was between Catherine and Quint. Catherine wanted Quint not to disturb Miles anymore and Quint wanted to be with Miles. 2. Why did Quint come back? Because he had to come back to make a final attempt to stop Miles speaking, to stop him confessing everything to her. 3. Why did Catherine think she had won and Quint had lost Miles forever? Because Miles asked her where Quint was. 4. Why had Catherine ‘done Miles no favour’? What had she really done to Miles in the end? Because Miles couldn’t live without Quint, and he saved him from the ghost. At the end, Catherine had killed Miles.

COMPOSITION DO YOU BELIBE IN GHOSTS? I don’t believe in ghost. I know that some people do, but I think it’s just because someone had convinced them about it. I don’t believe in ghosts because I had never seen one and probably I will never do it. I know that some people disagree because they believe in supernatural things or something like that. I’m a person who needs to see some proves for believe in something and at the moment I don’t have any prove or clue that show me that, so I would never believe on ghosts. I know that when we are young, we see movies and TV shows where some ghosts appears, so that’s why on our childhood we believe in ghosts and we are afraid of a noise and we suddenly think that it was a ghost or we start imagine about something that’s not true, but while we grow up we realized that it’s false because there were special effects on the movie and the “ghosts” were actors. In conclusion, if I see a ghost in my live I will believe in ghost, but if I don’t see anyone I absolutely won’t believe in. 193 words...