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Structure
Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
- There are a total of 20 general entries.
Special Topics
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Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
DuMaurier, Daphne
Mary Yellan. We learn her name a few pages in.
Patience. Mary calls her "Aunt Patience".
Who comes to investigate the inn when the landlord is away, causing Aunt Patience to have a nervous breakdown? | Jamaica Inn Quiz
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the squire, Mr Bassat. The squire comes down from his home, North Hill, to catch Joss with plundered goods - luckily for Joss, he had already moved the catch.
Who does Mary befriend, telling him all that she suspects about her uncle? | Jamaica Inn Quiz
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Francis Davey. Mary meets up with Francis Davey on the moor, having followed her uncle. He seemed like a nice man, and eventually she trusts him enough to tell him what happens at Jamaica Inn.
When he is drunk. Joss' main weakness is his love of drink - when he's sober he guards his secrets, but when he's drunk he tells Mary about the ships.
sink ships. Joss runs the ships to the ground, where he boards and steals all the goods contained therein.
horse thief. Jem steals horses for a living - he tells Mary that one day he may buy horses for pleasure instead of stealing and selling them.
Francis Davey. Francis Davey was Joss' "boss" and when he discovered that the game was up, he killed Joss and Patience to keep them from betraying him.
Monaco. Mrs. Van Hopper embarrasses the heroine by asking intrusive questions and making brash comments to Maxim.
breakfast. After Maxim informs Mrs. Van Hopper of the upcoming wedding, Mrs. Van Hopper privately tells the heroine that she is making the biggest mistake of her life, and that Maxim is only marrying her because he can't stand being alone.
horseback riding. Beatrice is unique in this story, in that she has no ulterior motives for her actions, and is friendly and conversational with the heroine.
she saw the window was unfastened. Mrs. Danvers can see right through the heroine's insubstantial excuses, and shows her around Rebecca's room, in an eerie manner. The heroine becomes flustered and quickly excuses herself.
Lady Crowan . Maxim reluctantly agrees to the ball, while the heroine is racking her brain for a brilliant costume to amaze everybody.
After a body is discovered on the shore, Maxim tells the heroine the truth about Rebecca, his former wife, and reveals that he killed her. The heroine is reassuring Maxim that everything will be alright, when the telephone rings; the magistrate is on the line. What is his name? | The "Modern Masterpiece of Romantic Suspense" Quiz
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Colonel Julyan. The magistrate is calling to ask Maxim if it is possible he made a mistake when he identified Rebecca's body the first time.
shipbuilder. The judge continues questioning Maxim, and at one point asks whether or not Maxim and Rebecca's relationship was happy. This is too overwhelming for the heroine; she faints.
Jack Favell. Rebecca's death was temporarily determined to be suicide, and the letter indicated that she wanted to tell Jack something later in the day the she supposedly killed herself. This is strong evidence that Rebecca was murdered.
Frank. Driving home from the meeting with the doctor took a few days and when the heroine and Maxim returned home to Manderley, they saw the magnificent building burning to the ground.
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