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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Robin doing on the first nice day after all the rain?
(a) Singing his joy about the warmth.
(b) Trying to find a mate.
(c) Gathering nuts and berries.
(d) Building a nest.

2. What has Dickon named the animal who works in the garden with him on the first nice day after all the rain?
(a) General.
(b) Captain.
(c) Admiral.
(d) Colonel.

3. Who enters the garden while Collin, Dickon and Mary are expressing their thanks to the garden and its magic?
(a) Martha.
(b) Mrs. Sowerby.
(c) Collin's nurse.
(d) Dr. Craven.

4. What does Mary threaten to do when Collin says he will send Dickon away?
(a) Never take him to the Garden.
(b) Go to live with Dickon and his mother.
(c) Never speak to him again.
(d) Never see him again.

5. Why does Collin not mind keeping the curtain open over the picture of his mother as he begins to get well?
(a) He feels she is happy to be with him now.
(b) He misses her.
(c) He is no longer angry with her for leaving.
(d) He hopes her picture will bring his father to visit him.

6. What is the first thing that Collin plants in the Garden?
(a) A rose.
(b) A lily.
(c) A fern.
(d) A tree.

7. What does Collin say is the only medicine he needs after his hysterics?
(a) The outdoors.
(b) Optomism.
(c) Laughter.
(d) Mary.

8. On the rainy day when he cannot go out to the Garden, what does Collin say about the change in Mary's appearance that has occurred from the time they first met?
(a) She has grown fatter and more comely.
(b) She is taller and prettier.
(c) She was always very pretty to him.
(d) She looks more like his mother every day.

9. What is Mary awakened by in the night after her first fight with Colin?
(a) Collin's nurse.
(b) Doors being opened and closed and the rushing of feet.
(c) Collin screaming.
(d) Martha's crying.

10. What does Collin smell on Mary when she comes to see him the morning he wakes up happy?
(a) Breakfast.
(b) Spring.
(c) The wind.
(d) The garden.

11. Who does Collin long to tell about the magic that he is witnessing all around him as he begins to get well?
(a) His father.
(b) Dr. Craven.
(c) Mrs. Medlock.
(d) His mother.

12. What does Collin do when he hears what Mary plans to do after lunch on the first nice day after all the rain?
(a) He fires Martha.
(b) He forbids Mary to ever speak to his father again.
(c) He asks her to read a book to him.
(d) He throws a tantrum.

13. What did Ben do after Mr. Craven ordered the garden be shut up?
(a) He hid the key himself.
(b) He plead with Mr. Craven to allow him in the garden.
(c) He threw seeds over the wall hoping they would sprout.
(d) He continued to climb over the wall and tend the garden.

14. Who walks into the room as Mary and Collin are talking?
(a) Martha and Dickon.
(b) Mrs. Medlock and Dr. Craven.
(c) Mary's uncle.
(d) Collin's nurse.

15. What does Martha say Mary must have done to Collin when she first met him?
(a) Been kind to him.
(b) Scared him.
(c) Surprised him.
(d) Bewitched him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mrs. Medlock's reaction to Collin and Mary laughing?

2. What has Dickon named his tamed squirrels?

3. Why do Mary and Collin have to cover their mouths when they are in the presence of the staff as Collin begins to get well?

4. What does Mary suggest that she and Collin do on the first day that it is too rainy for Collin to go out in the Garden?

5. What does the head gardener of Misselthwaite think of Dickon?

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