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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, The Beatrix Potter Books.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lane say Beatrix was able to illustrate with her animal characters?
(a) Mischievousness.
(b) Anatomy.
(c) England's biodiversity.
(d) Human emotion.

2. What did Beatrix and her brother restore together as children?
(a) A buggy.
(b) A rabbit hutch.
(c) A printing press.
(d) A bicycle.

3. What year was the code in Beatrix's diary cracked?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1961.

4. According to Chapter 2, why were Beatrix and her brother in the countryside with their parents?
(a) For their father's amusement.
(b) For safety.
(c) For their father's business.
(d) To visit family.

5. Which characters did Beatrix imbue with a sense of pride and self-reliance?
(a) Her rabbit characters.
(b) Her housewife characters.
(c) Her foreign characters.
(d) Her child characters.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many books did Beatrix publish after her marriage?

2. For what type of equality did Beatrix's grandfather campaign?

3. Who was Canon Rawnsely?

4. The people at the meeting in 1896 were skeptical of ____________.

5. What fascinated Beatrix about Scotland during her childhood?

(see the answer key)

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