Daphne DuMaurier Trivia

1. "The Scapegoat" was written from this person's perspective.

From Quiz Daphne du Maurier's Novels

Answer: John

The author wrote through John's perspective as the character discovered the truth about the life Jean led.

From Quiz Jamaica Inn

Answer: Mary Yellan

We learn her name a few pages in.

From Quiz "Rebecca" (the novel)

Answer: Never specified

I think that's amazing. In almost four hundred pages, the narrator is either "I" or "Mrs de Winter". The other three were characters in the story.

From Quiz The Book 'Rebecca'

Answer: never says

The narrator never gives her name because she feels inferior to the well liked Rebecca.

From Quiz The Life, Novels and Movies of Daphne du Maurier

Answer: Manderley

Manderley is the home of Maxim de Winter, the widowed husband of the eponymous Rebecca. It is a typical English country house of its time, full of family history, run by domestic staff headed by the fearsome Mrs Danvers and is open to the public at certain times of the year. Of course, the house is reputed to be haunted but it doesn't have a ghost in the classical sense. In this novel, the craft of the story is the way in which the spirit of Rebecca (who at no time physically appears in the novel) pervades every aspect the story. The new Mrs de Winter, who paradoxically is not given any name other than Mrs de Winter, is slowly driven to despair by the brooding presence of Rebecca everywhere she turns.

From Quiz All About "Rebecca"

Answer: "Jane Eyre" (Charlotte Brontë)

Although different, the two novels do have some key plot points in common, such as an unlikely marriage between a wealthy man and a woman widely regarded as unsuitable, and a shadow falling on that marriage due to the man's first wife. Both feature a stately manor that burns down in the end, with both fires being caused by the first wife (though only indirectly in the case of "Rebecca" - according to Sally Beauman, Rebecca is the "poetic agent" as opposed to the "physical agent", who is probably Mrs. Danvers). Both novels also imply that the main character "saves" her husband from his past, although this works out much more pleasantly in "Jane Eyre" than "Rebecca", given that the ending of "Rebecca" (which is, in fact, the very beginning of the book) is rather cynical and not exactly happy.

From Quiz Daphne du Maurier's Novels

Answer: Cornwall

This was the first of several novels set in Cornwall.

From Quiz The "Modern Masterpiece of Romantic Suspense" Quiz

Answer: Monaco

Mrs. Van Hopper embarrasses the heroine by asking intrusive questions and making brash comments to Maxim.

From Quiz Jamaica Inn

Answer: Patience

Mary calls her "Aunt Patience".

From Quiz "Rebecca" (the novel)

Answer: She spilled a vase of flowers

The narrator spilled a vase of anemones, and Maxim invited her to sit with him.

From Quiz The Book 'Rebecca'

Answer: Daphne DuMaurier

The book was written in the 1930s.

From Quiz All About "Rebecca"

Answer: 3

"Mrs. de Winter" (1993) by Susan Hill is a direct sequel. "The Other Rebecca" (1996) by Maureen Freely is a contemporary version. "Rebecca's Tale" (2001) by Sally Beauman, the only one of the three which I've read, too, deals with Rebecca's childhood and background through a bunch of letters sent to Colonel Julyan (the magistrate from "Rebecca") approximately twenty years after the events of the original novel. Mrs. Danvers, Jack Favell and the second Mrs. de Winter all make an appearance.

From Quiz Daphne du Maurier's Novels

Answer: Milton and Menabilly

Daphne was enamored with Milton during a childhood visit. Later she came across Menabilly which was deserted at the time but found a special place in her heart.

From Quiz The "Modern Masterpiece of Romantic Suspense" Quiz

Answer: 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.

From Quiz Jamaica Inn

Answer: 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 cache.

From Quiz "Rebecca" (the novel)

Answer: Breakfast

The narrator was about to go to New York with horrible Mrs. Van Hopper.

From Quiz The Book 'Rebecca'

Answer: Manderley

From Quiz The Life, Novels and Movies of Daphne du Maurier

Answer: DBE

She became a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 1969. The DBE is the female equivalent of a Knighthood. Thereafter she was known as Dame Daphne du Maurier.

From Quiz All About "Rebecca"

Answer: the fact that a main character should be nameless

I admit, this is a hard question, and one should think that Ms. Christie was more interested in the murderous plot points, so to speak. But, in fact, she found it most unusual and worth talking about that the narrator's name is never given.

From Quiz Daphne du Maurier's Novels

Answer: Hungry Hill

This, like many of du Maurier's novels, became the basis of a motion picture.

From Quiz The "Modern Masterpiece of Romantic Suspense" Quiz

Answer: 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.

From Quiz "Rebecca" (the novel)

Answer: Never specified

Jasper, a dog, never had information supplied about his parentage.

From Quiz The Book 'Rebecca'

Answer: Mrs. Danvers

Mrs. Danvers loved the first Mrs. DeWinter and couldn't stand the narrator trying to take her place. Though the real Rebecca (the first Mrs. DeWinter) was malevolent and fooled everyone but Maxim.

From Quiz The Life, Novels and Movies of Daphne du Maurier

Answer: The Birds

"The Birds" was a short story concerning a Cornish farming family living near a small village. Movie Director Alfred Hitchcock thought the setting would not translate well to the big screen so he relocated it to California. Hitchcock mystified the cinema audience by giving no plausible reason why the birds should go on the attack, but in the novel, Daphne du Maurier suggests that the behaviour of the birds is somehow connected to the tides and when the wind comes from the east. Du Maurier claimed that the inspiration for the novel came from one day when she was driving along country lanes and saw a farmer working in his field, with a crowd of seabirds wheeling above his head. She wondered what would happen if those birds took it into their heads to attack him.

From Quiz All About "Rebecca"

Answer: Maxim doesn't shoot Rebecca

The Hollywood Production Code, or Hays Code, was the predecessor of the rating system and determined what was morally acceptable in a feature film. And it was, of course, unacceptable that a husband should get away with the murder of his wife, even more so since the audience is on his side. So the murder had to be made an accident. The 1997 TV version of "Rebecca" was the first adaptation of the novel to show Rebecca alive. She was played by Lucy Cohu.

From Quiz The "Modern Masterpiece of Romantic Suspense" Quiz

Answer: 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.

From Quiz Jamaica Inn

Answer: 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.

From Quiz "Rebecca" (the novel)

Answer: Lady Crowan & Crowan

Lady Crowan wasn't very nice.

From Quiz The Life, Novels and Movies of Daphne du Maurier

Answer: The Little Photographer

All the novelettes in this question were taken from a collection of short stories called "The Apple Tree".

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