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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hester typically do after cleaning a room in Angelfield?
(a) Invite the twins to see the difference.
(b) Spray a perfume with the fragrance of lavendar.
(c) Take down all of the pictures.
(d) Lock the room.

2. 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 sends his wife to talk to the twin's mother.
(b) He diagnoses insanity and recommends that the twins be sent to an asylum.
(c) He, according to common practice of the time, uses leeches to try to clean their blood.
(d) He visits every day for two weeks and then gives up in failure.

3. What is the proof Margaret sees to prove she was a twin?
(a) Margaret's parents finally tell her the truth, and show her legal documents.
(b) She answers the door and sees her twin standing there.
(c) She is sent a letter with a picture of her parents with both babies.
(d) She finds her sister's birth certificate and death certificate.

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

5. Margaret receives a letter from her father with something enclosed. What is it?
(a) A necklace from her mother.
(b) An old picture of Isabelle and Charlie as young children.
(c) An artice about Vida Winter's disease.
(d) A letter from a lawyer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who or what startles Margaret in the ruins of the Angelfield house on her first day of exploration?

2. How does Hester help the Missus?

3. What does Hester do first when she arrives?

4. What physical feature on Vida Winter is distinctive?

5. What is surprising about the appearance of the letter for Margaret?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the incident of the baby and perambulator.

2. How does Margaret learn that she was a twin? Describe what she is doing and how she makes the discovery.

3. Explain why Hester leaves Angelfield so suddenly.

4. Relate a few ways that the bookstore contributed to Margaret's education.

5. After Isabelle leaves Angelfield for a short time, with whom did she return?

6. Describe Judith, the housekeeper.

7. Describe the contents of the letter which Margaret receives.

8. Describe the orientation of the Angelfield house.

9. Describe Vida Winter's reaction to Margaret 's short leave of absence.

10. When Margaret writes a card about Hester, what conclusion does she come to, and how does she act on this?

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