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  In Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, what was Rebecca's mansion called?

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  In Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca what is the narrator's first name?



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  What is the name of Rebecca's successor in Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca? see if you know the answer
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  The unnamed narrator of Rebecca is working as a 'companion' for a socialite at the beginning of the novel. What's the socialite's name?

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  At the conclusion of My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier, is Rachel revealed to be truly evil? see if you know the answer
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Difficulty: medium
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  In Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca, what was the name of the first Mrs. de Winter?

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Difficulty: difficult
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  The Birds and Other StoriesDaphne Du Maurier

The following are in "The Birds and Other Stories" by Daphne du Maurier except:
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  Alfred Hitchcock adapted three works by Daphne du Maurier for film. They are Rebecca, The Birds and?
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Difficulty: difficult
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  Daphne du Maurier held which title? see if you know the answer
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  Which book begins with the famous first line
"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley..."
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  What was novelist Daphne du Maurier's relation to the 19th-century cartoonist and novelist, George Du Maurier? see if you know the answer
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  In Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier, Maxim de Winter's two wives, in chronological order, call him: see if you know the answer
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  In Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, Maximilan de Winter's estate is named:
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Difficulty: easy
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  In Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, Maximilian de Winter's two wives, in chronolgical order, are named: see if you know the answer
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Difficulty: medium
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  Who wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's? see if you know the answer
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Difficulty: easy
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  In "My Cousin Rachel," by Daphne Du Maurier, Ambrose and his seven year old orphaned cousin, Philip, are walking when they see a body swinging on a gibbet and Ambrose delivers the book's memorable opening line of "They used to hang men at Four Turnings in the old days. Not any more though." p5 What was Philip's thought on this statement? see if you know the answer
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  Who is Philip's godfather in "My Cousin Rachel," by Daphne Du Maurier? see if you know the answer
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Difficulty: very difficult
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  What does Nick Kendall think Ambrose is suffering from, when Philip discusses the contents of a letter from Ambrose with him? ("My Cousin Rachel," by Daphne Du Maurier) see if you know the answer
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  Daphne du Maurier, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Ken Follett.

Which girl's name links these three writers?
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Difficulty: easy
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  Whose figure is being described here, and by whom/ in what book?

"It stood right at the seawardmost end, apparently leaning against an old cannon-barrel up-ended as a bollard. Its clothes were black. The wind moved them, but the figure stood motionless, staring, staring out to sea, more like a living memorial to the drowned, a figure from myth, than any fragment of the petty provincial day."
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Answered: 235 times
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Difficulty: difficult
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  Daphne du MaurierWhich book did Daphne du Maurier not write? see if you know the answer
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