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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Mrs. Sowerby get her gift for Mary?
(a) She bought it with part of Martha's wages.
(b) She traded cooking for it.
(c) She asked one of her daughters to give it to her.
(d) She made it.

2. What does Mary notice as they begin to pass over the moor?
(a) There seems to be nothing there.
(b) It is darker than she had imagined.
(c) It is lovely.
(d) There are many houses there.

3. How does Mary describe how she feels when she wakes up on the day the Cholera breaks out?
(a) The day feels wrong.
(b) The day feels lonely.
(c) The day feels jubilant.
(d) The day feels oddly cold.

4. How long has the Secret Garden been locked up when Mary enters it?
(a) 6 years.
(b) 15 years.
(c) 12 years.
(d) 10 years.

5. Why is Dickon sure that someone has been in the garden during the past 10 years?
(a) There has been some pruning done.
(b) There is a pile of clippings.
(c) There are annual seeds planted.
(d) There are some tools left behind.

6. How many people does Mary like after meeting Dickon?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 7.
(d) 12.

7. What is the name of Mary's closest living relative?
(a) Martha Medlock.
(b) Archibald Craven.
(c) Robert Lennox.
(d) Ben Weatherstaff.

8. Where is Mary living at the beginning of the book?
(a) America.
(b) India.
(c) China.
(d) England.

9. What did Mr. Craven do with the key of the Secret Garden?
(a) He buried it.
(b) He put in on a necklace and wears it.
(c) He melted it.
(d) He placed it on his wife's headstone.

10. Who finds Mary as she is hiding in the nursery?
(a) A reverend.
(b) Her Ayah.
(c) Some strange men.
(d) Her parents.

11. How does Mary get her request to Dickon for what she thinks she needs in the Secret Garden?
(a) Mary asks Martha to ask him.
(b) Mary finds him in the garden and tells him.
(c) Mary asks the robin to tell him.
(d) Martha dictates a letter for her.

12. How does Mary spend most of her days after finding the Garden?
(a) Digging and weeding.
(b) Planting her new seeds.
(c) Running and jumping.
(d) Talking to the Robin.

13. Why do Mary and Dickon speak so softly when Mary first shown him her garden?
(a) They are too surprised at what they are seeing.
(b) They do not want to be heard.
(c) They do not want to frighten the animals.
(d) Out of reverence.

14. What does Mrs. Medlock do to Mary when they arrive at their first stop on the way to Misselthwaite Manor?
(a) Warns her.
(b) Embraces her.
(c) Wakes her.
(d) Rebukes her.

15. How many books does the library at Misselthwaite hold?
(a) Tens of thousands.
(b) Millions.
(c) Hundreds.
(d) Thousands.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Martha tell Mary to go on a very rainy day when she is not able to go outside?

2. How did Mrs. Craven die?

3. Which of these is NOT an animal that was near Dickon when Mary first meets him?

4. What is the name of the place that Mary is sent after the Cholera breaks out?

5. What portraits in Misslethwaite are most interesting to Mary?

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