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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Wysteria make Miranda study in Chapter 2?
(a) History.
(b) Biology.
(c) English.
(d) Arithmetic.

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

3. The boys who jeer at Miranda in Chapter 7 say that she is Wysteria's what?
(a) Slave.
(b) Daughter.
(c) Witch.
(d) Sister.

4. What is the narrative voice of the novel?
(a) Fourth person.
(b) First person.
(c) Third person.
(d) Second person.

5. What word means burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical?
(a) Oppressive.
(b) Industrial.
(c) Depressive.
(d) Elusive.

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

7. One of the boys in Chapter 7 claims the curse is due to the great riches within the Manor, and that the house kills anyone who tries to do what?
(a) Sleep in the house.
(b) Leave the house.
(c) Keep it.
(d) Spend money.

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

9. Wysteria makes her living by mending fishing nets for the fishing fleet out of where?
(a) Seattle Bay.
(b) St. Albans.
(c) Gray Harbor.
(d) Anderson Bay.

10. The doctor's secretary tells Miranda that the doctor will not be excited to do what in Chapter 7?
(a) Return to the Manor.
(b) Go near the hounds.
(c) See Wysteria.
(d) Visit his sister.

11. How many generations of grim ancestral portraits line the walls of the hall in Bourne Manor?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 6.
(d) 5.

12. Miranda's room in Bourne Manor looks out across the harbor and to what mountains?
(a) The Alps.
(b) The Appalachian Mountains.
(c) The Sierra Nevada Mountains.
(d) The Adirondack Mountains.

13. The Bourne Manor functions as a kind of what in the novel?
(a) Windmill.
(b) Church.
(c) Lighthouse.
(d) Hospital.

14. Miranda is the cause of gossip at the Manor due to what, in Chapter 2?
(a) Her large size and short hair.
(b) Her feathers and webbed feet.
(c) Her shyness and mysterious arrival.
(d) Her small size and strange clothing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to discord of action, feeling, or effect; antagonism or opposition, as of interests or principles?

2. One of the boys in Chapter 7 claims that the house caused Captain Barrows to do what?

3. For how long does Miranda say Wysteria's husband had been dead in Chapter 6?

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

5. One of the boys who jeers at Miranda in Chapter 7 claims that Miranda is only fooling herself to think that she is what?

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