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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why has Mary never seen or heard about Collin?
(a) His father thinks he is dead.
(b) He has been in a coma.
(c) His sickness is contagious.
(d) He forbids the servants to talk about him.

2. Where is Martha going on her day off after the rain has stopped?
(a) To her mother's house.
(b) Into town.
(c) On a long walk along the moor.
(d) To the seaside.

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

4. 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) There are many houses there.
(d) It is lovely.

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

6. What did Mrs. Sowerby buy for Mary?
(a) A book.
(b) A packet of seeds.
(c) A scarf.
(d) A skipping rope.

7. How old is Mary when she chases away her first English governess?
(a) 6.
(b) 12.
(c) 10.
(d) 4.

8. How does Mary find the source of the mysterious sound she hears the night after meeting her uncle?
(a) She asks Martha to take her to it.
(b) She runs to find her uncle, and he shows her.
(c) She follows the sound to a door with light underneath.
(d) The source comes to her.

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

10. What did the grand doctor from London tell Collin would heal him?
(a) Bed rest and a healthy diet.
(b) A daily dose of supplemental vitamins.
(c) Running outdoors.
(d) A fancy back brace.

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

12. What does Ben do that makes Mary think he looks much younger and kinder on her first day at Misselthwaite?
(a) Smiles.
(b) Skips.
(c) Gardens.
(d) Sings.

13. How does Mary tell Dickon she came across her garden?
(a) It found her.
(b) She found it.
(c) She stole it.
(d) She dreamed it.

14. What are Mrs. Medlock's instructions to Mary as she is shown her two rooms in the Manor?
(a) To stay to those rooms, and only those rooms.
(b) To keep them tidy and neat.
(c) To never leave her room at night.
(d) To never ask anything of her uncle.

15. What is wrong with Mary's uncle?
(a) He has a hunched back and a broken heart.
(b) He is blind.
(c) He has a sickness of the lungs that also killed his wife.
(d) He has hallucinations due to stress.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many rooms are in Misselthwaite Manor?

2. What causes Mary to go outside to the gardens, even on cold and windy days?

3. Why did Mary's uncle not get her a governess?

4. How old is Misselthwaite Manor?

5. Why is all the plant-life on the moor so low to the ground?

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