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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Aurelius come to visit Margaret?
(a) To bring her a birthday cake.
(b) To tell Margaret that he had found Hester.
(c) To ask her to marry him.
(d) He wanted her to know Angelfield was destroyed.

2. Who does Margaret meet near Angelfield when she returns a third time?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Karen, the daughter of Ambrose.
(c) Ms. Winters' solicitor.
(d) Aurelius's mother.

3. What does Margaret bring to Aurelius at Angelfield?
(a) Pictures of his grandfather.
(b) The casket of Emmeline's ashes.
(c) The diary of Hester.
(d) Legal papers that identify Aurelius as a son of one of the twins.

4. Who is Aurelius' half-sister?
(a) Karen.
(b) Emmeline.
(c) The missus' niece.
(d) Isabelle.

5. Hester talks in her diary of the joy of working closely with someone on what project?
(a) The renovation of Angelfield.
(b) A vegetable garden.
(c) The study of twins.
(d) A book about Jane Eyre.

6. In her telling of the Angelfield story, what does Vida Winter begin to do that she has not done before?
(a) Winter continually strokes the strange burn mark on her hand.
(b) Winter insists that her housekeeper, Judith, also be present in the room.
(c) Winter silently weeps after the telling of the story.
(d) Winter has used the pronoun "I."

7. Who does John-the-Dig teach about trimming the topiary garden?
(a) Adeline.
(b) Both twins.
(c) His nephew.
(d) The new boy, Proctor.

8. What has happened moments before Margaret's return to Vida Winter's house?
(a) Judith has announced that she is leaving.
(b) The violinist has been discovered.
(c) Emmeline has died.
(d) Three people believe they have seen the ghost.

9. On Margaret's birthday, she goes :
(a) To Angelfield, for dinner with Aurelius.
(b) Back home, for a reunion with her parents.
(c) On a boat ride on the lake.
(d) To the moors, in the rain.

10. Who was the father of Emmeline's child?
(a) Ambrose.
(b) Charlie.
(c) The Missus' nephew.
(d) John-the-dig.

11. How does Margaret help Vida Winter after the telling of these painful memories?
(a) She finds Hester.
(b) She helps her decide to find a new doctor.
(c) She sings to her when her physical pain is severe.
(d) She holds her and comforts her in the pain of the memory.

12. What distinctive smell lingered on the "foundling" bag?
(a) Lavender from the fields, similar to the fields at Angelfield.
(b) Pine needles.
(c) Beer.
(d) Smoke from a fire.

13. What does Vida Winter ask of Margaret when Margaret is sick?
(a) To hear Margaret's story.
(b) To stop trying to figure out the twin language.
(c) For Margaret to hurry and finish the book in the next month.
(d) Not to go away for Christmas.

14. After Hester leaves and Isabelle dies, what can be said about the Missus?
(a) She has left in search of Isabelle and Charlie.
(b) She has gradually become forgetful and unable to perform simple household tasks.
(c) After Isabelle's death, she went into her room and wept uncontrollably for many nights in a row.
(d) John-the-dig agrees to marry her after many years of working together.

15. Instead of going home for Christmas, where does Margaret go instead?
(a) Angelfield.
(b) To London.
(c) To look for Hester.
(d) To see her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Adeline find that Emmeline had been keeping?

2. Where does Adeline look for Charlie?

3. In what condition is Charlie when Adeline finds him?

4. Why doesn't the doctor come as soon as Emmeline has died?

5. In addition to the filth and squalor or of Charlie's room, what is most surprising about Charlie's room?

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