1) A) Rebecca : assumed a smile; she sank back in the carriage in an easy frame of mind; laughing.
Miss Sedley: astonishment; worn an almost livid look of hatred; was almost as flurried; was exceedingly alarmed.
B) Rebecca: satisfied, relaxed; proud
Miss Sedley: nervous; defiant worried; frightened

2) A)Rebecca's feeling for the school: I hate the whole house, I hope I never set eyes on it again: I hate her (Miss Pinkerton ) with all my soul
Reasons: for two years I have only had insults and outrage from her; I have been treated worse than any servant in the kitchen; I have never had a friend or a kind word .
B) Amelia is shocked by Rebecca's behavior because she considers her words wicked and revengeful. Miss Sedley is a submissive person and her personality respects the Victorian age values: the impressions are the most important aspects of life.
REBECCA: revengeful, passionate, impulsive
AMELIA: gentle, simple, passive, calm, conformist

3) A) There is a third person intrusive narrator.
b) In lines 11-18 the narrator relates an episode about an old gentleman of sixty-eight years old who said to the narrator that he had dreamt Dr.Raine was flogging him. The narrator uses this instance in order to underline how terrors of youth last forever in our lives.
The narrator uses the digression ironically making to surface her conformism and her bound with appearance.
c) The adjective "heroical" is used ironically obtaining an hyperbolic effect.
D) the reader is not free to judge the characters because he o she shares narrator's judjements.
4)
• Addresses the reader: line 51 frown....companion
• Digresses : lines 11-15 I know... pant?
• Makes general comments: we may be pretty certain that persons whom all the world treats ill , deserve entirely the treatment they get. The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
• Offers more generalizations: For this was the greatest blasphemy Rebecca had as yet uttered; and in those days, in England, to say , "Long live Bonaparte!"was as much as to say , "Long live Lucifer!"
• Refers to the writing of the novel: