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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Miranda's favorite kite in Chapter 4?
(a) Red Dragon.
(b) Black Hawk.
(c) Great Heron.
(d) Blue Rocket.

2. Both Miranda and Wysteria are described as having grown more what in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) Joyful.
(b) Lean.
(c) Fat.
(d) Mean.

3. One of the boys who jeers at Miranda in Chapter 7 claims that Miranda is only fooling herself to think that she is what?
(a) Dr. Mead's daughter.
(b) The heir of Bourne Manor.
(c) A bird.
(d) The daughter of Wysteria.

4. In Chapter 6, Miranda learns that Farley is causing a disturbance where?
(a) In a rose bush.
(b) In an elm tree.
(c) In a hyacinth tree.
(d) In a willow tree.

5. What does Miranda become trapped in by the wind in Chapter 1?
(a) A kite string.
(b) An elm tree.
(c) A rose bush.
(d) A willow tree.

6. Miranda stops the conversation with the boys in Chapter 7 by threatening to do what?
(a) Hit them with a stick.
(b) Release the hounds.
(c) Throw rocks at them.
(d) Release the vampires.

7. What does Miranda claim Wysteria loves more than anything in Chapter 2?
(a) Money.
(b) Her dogs.
(c) Miranda.
(d) Her daughter.

8. Farley asks if Miranda can accompany him where to fly the kite in Chapter 6?
(a) Into town.
(b) To the church.
(c) To the beach.
(d) To the mountains.

9. What is the name of the family who owned the great estate and into which Wysteria married in order to become wealthy?
(a) The Smiths.
(b) The Meads.
(c) The Andersons.
(d) The Barrows.

10. What are Wysteria's four dogs that Miranda befriends referred to in "Bird"?
(a) The Canines.
(b) The Beasts.
(c) The Hounds.
(d) The Wolves.

11. Miranda is introduced to a boy named Farley after having lived with Wysteria how many years?
(a) 5.
(b) 8.
(c) 7.
(d) 2.

12. Miranda claims in Chapter 4 that she could not see Wysteria as beautiful due to her what?
(a) Paleness.
(b) Coldness.
(c) Grief.
(d) Poverty.

13. What refers to a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest?
(a) Climax.
(b) Exposition.
(c) Denouement.
(d) Rising action.

14. Wysteria claims that her odd window-locking habit is to prevent what, in Chapter 3?
(a) Air drafts.
(b) Vampires.
(c) Ghosts entering.
(d) Evil spirits.

15. What arrives and removes Miranda from her trapped position in Chapter 1?
(a) A centaur.
(b) Two hounds.
(c) Three fauns.
(d) A white witch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Farley have strapped to his back when Miranda finds him in Chapter 6?

2. What word means burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical?

3. Miranda only takes the chance to do what with her favorite kite in Chapter 4?

4. What does Wysteria give Miranda after she becomes trapped in a bush in Chapter 5?

5. Miranda obeys Wysteria's requests to stay close to the Manor in Chapter 5, partly because she fears what?

(see the answer keys)

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