1. This is an extract from the novel Rebecca, by British writer Daphne du Maurier.

Read the extract

and answer these questions. (4 x 0,5 = 2 points)
a. Who is Maxim?

b. Who is the story told by?

c. Who is Rebecca?

d. What is the inquest trying to establish?

2. Read the text again and answer the following questions. (6 x 1 =6 points)
a. How does the narrator feel before she goes to the inquest? How do you know?

b. What has happened just before Maxim’s wife goes into the courtroom?

c. How does the Coroner first suggest that Rebecca died?

d. What new evidence does James Tabb then give about the boat?

e. Who does the Coroner think might have been involved in Rebecca’s death? How do you
know?

f. How does Maxim’s wife feel at the end? Why do you think she feels like this?

3. Answer these questions. Both the clarity of your expression and the quality of your arguments will
be considered here. (2 x 1 = 2 points)
a. Do you think that Maxim murdered his wife?

b. What do you think might happen at the end of the book?