This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, Middles: Everybody Has a Story, December Days, Sisters, A Diary and a Train, Demolishing the Past, and Hester's Diary II,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the chapter title, "Box of Lives" refer to?
(a) Vida Winter says she keeps "opening up the box" to reveal the secrets of her past.
(b) Margaret keeps a 3x5 card on many people, and she keepst these cards in a box.
(c) Margaret finds an old box near the ruins of the old church.
(d) Winter keeps many items from her past in a safe in her bedroom; she finally shows the box to Margaret.

2. Vida Winter learned most of the family history by listening to whose stories?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) The Missus, who was the main kitchen servant.
(c) Her uncle, who wrote down the history.
(d) The stable boy who was like her old brother.

3. What is the first question Margaret asks Vida WInter?
(a) Whether Winter is terminally ill and fears death will end her life soon.
(b) Her real name.
(c) An explanation about the rumor that her house is haunted.
(d) What happened to the (missing) thirteenth story in her first book.

4. Margaret receives a letter from her solicitor about whom?
(a) Hester.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Isabelle.

5. A woman in white used what to hurt a visitor to the Angelfield house?
(a) Poison.
(b) The cords of the heavy curtains.
(c) A violin.
(d) A fireplace poker.