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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21, "Ben Weatherstaff".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is so surprising to Mary about the sky after the rain stops?
(a) The clouds are so beautiful.
(b) It has a hazy cleanliness to it.
(c) It is brilliantly blue.
(d) It looks closer than before.

2. What does Mary ask Collin to not talk about with her anymore?
(a) His mother.
(b) Being sick.
(c) The garden.
(d) Dying.

3. What does the robin show Mary as she is walking in the gardens after the rain has stopped?
(a) A hurt lamb.
(b) A lost door.
(c) A buried key.
(d) Dickon.

4. What does Mary say when someone asks her if she likes herself?
(a) Sometimes she does, and sometimes she does not.
(b) She does - very much.
(c) She does not.
(d) She had never thought about it.

5. Who does Collin see climbing over the wall of the Garden?
(a) His father.
(b) Ben Weatherstaff.
(c) The head gardener.
(d) Mrs. Medlock.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mary's nick-name for Collin?

2. What happens to distract Collin from the tree that killed his mother?

3. What stops the surprise visitor to the garden from lecturing Mary?

4. What does Mary notice about Ben as the weather grows nicer?

5. Why is Collin not able to walk?

(see the answer key)

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