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

2. Wysteria claims that her odd window-locking habit is to prevent what, in Chapter 3?

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

4. What are Wysteria's four dogs that Miranda befriends referred to in "Bird"?

5. What character is the antagonist in the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Miranda's process of working in Chapter 3. How does Wysteria treat Miranda regarding her work?

2. What does Miranda encounter when she goes to respond to Wysteria's bell in Chapter 6?

3. What strange and habitual behavior is displayed by Wysteria in Chapter 3? What reason does she give for this behavior?

4. What is Miranda's response to the boys in Chapter 7? What does she learn of the Manor from them?

5. What does the character Farley do when he first is introduced in Chapter 5? What is Miranda and Wysteria's reaction to the boy?

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

7. Who does Miranda encounter along her journey in Chapter 7? What comments are made?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the character of Wysteria in the novel. How does Miranda feel about her "captor"?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the characteristics of Miranda and Captain Barrows in the novel. How are they similar? How do they differ?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Miranda's exchange with the boys in Chapter 7. What does Miranda learn about Bourne Manor from them, and how much weight does she give this information?

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