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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18, "Tha' Munnot Waste No Time".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mary do to the servant by her bed when she wakes up on the day the Cholera breaks out?
(a) Whimpers and hides.
(b) Pleads with her to bring her mother to her.
(c) Embraces her and cries.
(d) Flies into a rage and kicks her.

2. What does Mary do as she plays alone on the day the Cholera breaks out?
(a) Practices her knitting.
(b) Pretends to plant a garden.
(c) Plots to run away.
(d) Screams for her parents.

3. Why is Mary always given her way at the beginning of the book?
(a) The servants don't want her to cry and anger her parents.
(b) The doctors are afraid crying will weaken her sickly frame.
(c) Her mother is loving and never wants her to be unhappy.
(d) The servants are a lower class than her and must obey her will.

4. What is Mary's first impression of the Secret Garden?
(a) It is warm and welcoming.
(b) It is sweet and mysterious.
(c) It is dreary and cold.
(d) It is dark and scary.

5. What does Mary want to use as a lure to get Collin to come outside when the weather is good again?
(a) Threats.
(b) Bribes.
(c) A challenge.
(d) The garden.

Short Answer Questions

1. What surprises Martha about Mary's chance meeting Collin?

2. Who does Collin's nurse ask help from during Collin's hysterics?

3. What does Mary think is so strange about the people helping her and Mrs. Medlock at the train station?

4. What does Mary threaten to do when Collin says he will send Dickon away?

5. What does Mary realize about herself as she talks with Collin the night she first meets him?

(see the answer key)

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