This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, Middles: Hester Arrives, The Box of Lives, and The Eye in the Yew,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As the twins grow, what disturbing pattern emerges regarding them in the village and surrounding houses?
(a) The twins talk of drowning their mother and poisoning the servants.
(b) The twins begin to frighten smaller children with stories about ghosts.
(c) The twins are caught running without clothes on through the middle of town.
(d) The twins walk into unlocked houses and take what they want.

2. In their first interview, Winter reveals to Margaret a painful bit of her history earlier than she wanted to.
(a) Her father was mentally ill and commited suicide.
(b) At age 16, she experienced a massive fire.
(c) She had a child out of wedlock who died at age three.
(d) She had eloped with a disreputable man; he left her after only seven months of marriage.

3. What is significant about the name of the author, Vida Winter?
(a) It is the same name as her father's relative.
(b) "Vida" comes from the same root word as "vitality," meaning life.
(c) The former owner of the bookstore was named Jacob Winter.
(d) It is clearly a pen name, and her real name is a mystery.

4. Vida Winter says she starts one book as soon as she finishes another because she is afraid to confront which person who keeps trying to get her attention?
(a) Her twin.
(b) Her dead mother.
(c) Herself as a younger person.
(d) Her father.

5. What peculiar record does Margaret find in an almanac about Charlie Angelfield?
(a) He wrote a newspaper article about the hauntings of ghosts at Angelfield.
(b) He died on the night that the twins were born, making WInter's story untrue.
(c) He was declared legally dead.
(d) His death was recent, only two years before she met Ms. Winter.