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

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

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

4. Miranda says in Chapter 2 that she was adept at what from a young age?
(a) Playing piano.
(b) Playing the harp.
(c) Painting.
(d) Making lace.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Wysteria makes her living by mending fishing nets for the fishing fleet out of where?

2. What does Miranda claim Wysteria loves more than anything in Chapter 2?

3. The Bourne Manor functions as a kind of what in the novel?

4. What is Wysteria's last name in the novel?

5. Miranda comes to Wysteria's estate in what month in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Miranda's room like at the estate? How does she describe the setting of the Manor in Chapter 1?

2. How does Miranda describe her feelings about her education at Bourne Manor in Chapter 2?

3. How does Miranda feel about Farley's absence in the beginning of Chapter 7?

4. How does the author contrast Miranda and Wysteria regarding their interests and values in Chapter 4?

5. What breaks Miranda's solitude in Chapter 5? How is her life described at this time? How long has she been at the Manor?

6. What room does Miranda discover in Chapter 4?

7. How does Miranda's character develop independence in Chapter 3?

8. What gossip surrounds Miranda's character in the town? How does Wysteria react to it in Chapter 2?

9. What leads Miranda to leave the Manor in Chapter 7? Who does she take with her?

10. How does Miranda feel about lighting the lantern in Chapter 3? Why?

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