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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where and with whom does Margaret Lea spend her days?

2. What is one distinctive feature about Angelfield when Margaret first explores it?

3. Who is Hester?

4. What is significant about the name of the author, Vida Winter?

5. When Isabelle returns after being away for several months, she comes back with what or whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. Give three adjectives that describe Hester.

2. Relate the circumstances surrounding Isabelle's birth.

3. Contrast the difference in the way George Angelfield treats his two children.

4. How are the twins becoming different from each other under Hester's guidance?

5. What happens to Mrs. Maudsley when she arrives at Angelfield to check on the twins?

6. Describe what Margaret hears in the night soon after she arrives at the Winter house, and what she does when she hears this sound.

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

8. Describe the circumstances of the first meeting between Margaret and Aurelius.

9. List a few "odd" behaviors of the twins as they go about the countryside.

10. Contrast the differences in Margaret's parents.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many of the characters in this book struggle with depression. Identify the afflicted characters and discuss the behaviors of those characters which lead readers to imply that the depression is real. What factors for these characters might have led to this illness?

Essay Topic 2

Many of the Angelfield children were mean, violent and cruel. What makes a child cruel? What can be done to help an "evil" child? Write an essay that examines one of the "cruel" children of Angelfield, describing the factors that led to his or her cruelty, and what might have prevented this cruelty.

Essay Topic 3

How is understanding family history helpful in understanding an individual? Winter says to Margaret that individuals are part of their family's story. Do you believe that an individual is so marked by his family or by the past events of a family that he or she is trapped by this background? Can a family so mark a person that he or she cannot change? Discuss this question as it relates either to Vida Winters or to Margaret Lea.

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