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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Dr. Mead ask Miranda to take him in Chapter 8?
(a) The secret garden.
(b) The Captain's study.
(c) The basement.
(d) The great hall.

2. In Chapter 11, Farley tells Miranda that he has prepared what for her?
(a) A saddle.
(b) A plane.
(c) A boat.
(d) Wings.

3. Dr. Mead is not surprised to learn that while Miranda has learned much she knows nothing of what in Chapter 8?
(a) The history of the manor.
(b) Her heritage.
(c) The history of the town.
(d) The truth of Farley.

4. What word means the tip, point, or vertex?
(a) Depression.
(b) Apex.
(c) Catalyst.
(d) Column.

5. Who does Miranda encounter on her way to the Manor in Chapter 12?
(a) Farley.
(b) Dr. Mead.
(c) Miss Meadows.
(d) Wysteria.

6. What refers to the change in characterization of a dynamic character over the course of a narrative?
(a) Character deployment.
(b) Character depreciation.
(c) Character initiation.
(d) Character development.

7. In Chapter 13, Miranda and Farley realize that Captain Barrows had designed a great flying kite that was to be composed of what?
(a) Plane parts.
(b) The Bourne Manor.
(c) The other kites.
(d) Bird wings.

8. Farley is stunned to hear that Miranda has never seen what in Chapter 10?
(a) The meadow.
(b) The forest.
(c) The ocean.
(d) Ireland.

9. Where does Miranda hope to go to find more of her kind in Chapter 13?
(a) Across the mountains.
(b) To America.
(c) To Ireland.
(d) Across the lake.

10. Once in the Manor, Dr. Mead becomes singularly focused on finding his family's lost fortune where in Chapter 12?
(a) The basement.
(b) The attic.
(c) Captain Barrows' study.
(d) Wysteria's bedchamber.

11. The townspeople downwind of the manor believe that Wysteria is what?
(a) Generous.
(b) A saint.
(c) A ghost.
(d) Evil.

12. Who does Dr. Mead's nurse say she believes killed Captain Barrows in Chapter 9?
(a) Dr. Mead.
(b) Himself.
(c) His brother.
(d) Wysteria.

13. What refers to the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work?
(a) Protagonist.
(b) Catalyst.
(c) Anagram.
(d) Antagonist.

14. What does Miranda do for the first time in the novel since the beginning in Chapter 11?
(a) Swims.
(b) Dances.
(c) Sings.
(d) Flies.

15. What alarms Miranda and Dr. Mead to believe that Wysteria has waken up in Chapter 8?
(a) The fire alarm.
(b) The telephone ringing.
(c) The hounds barking.
(d) The bell ringing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Miranda realizes that she was always meant to be what in Chapter 11?

2. In Chapter 9, Miranda begins to feel the oppression of what setting in on her?

3. What is Farley referring to when he tells Miranda there are many beings "like yourself" in other places in Chapter 10?

4. What does Farley convince Miranda to take off for the first time in Chapter 11?

5. What refers to something used for or regarded as representing something else; a material object representing something, often something immaterial?

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