This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One, Beginnings: Dickens's Study, The Almanacs, In the Archives of the Banbury Herald, Ruins, The Friendly Giant, and Graves,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Merrily get her name?
(a) Her parents named her Merrily.
(b) Her mother had a clear, contagious laugh.
(c) When she was little, she sang the song called "Merrily, Happily, Longingly."
(d) Her name was Mary Leigh, and she laughed often.

2. What is Margaret's opinion about Vida Winter's writing?
(a) She is frustrated by the happy endings and predictable plots.
(b) She is surprised that Winter seems to have stolen one on Margaret's stories.
(c) She loves it, and spends days doing nothing else but reading Winter's books.
(d) She likes the writing, but has no interest in meeting WInter.

3. When Winter returns to the telling of her story, she talks of the village men asking for Dr. Maudsley's help with the twins. How does the doctor first attempt to solve the problem?
(a) He, according to common practice of the time, uses leeches to try to clean their blood.
(b) He sends his wife to talk to the twin's mother.
(c) He visits every day for two weeks and then gives up in failure.
(d) He diagnoses insanity and recommends that the twins be sent to an asylum.

4. What does Merrily often do while she is hanging clothes or doing housework?
(a) Sets her baby outside in her yard.
(b) Asks the Angelfield twins to babysit.
(c) Chats with Isabelle Angelfield.
(d) Tells ghost stories that frighten the twins.

5. What is peculiar about the way Margaret must read "The Thirteen Tales?'
(a) Because of a printing error, she keeps turning it upside down.
(b) She must wear white gloves.
(c) Every thirteenth page, she searches for a clue to a mystery.
(d) She doesn't want anyone to see her reading it, so she disguises it.