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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Mary hear when she finds herself lost in Misselthwaite Manor on the day it was too rainy for her to go outside?
(a) A man laughing.
(b) A child crying.
(c) The wind roaring.
(d) A woman screaming.

3. What does Dickon tell Mary about the work she has done without his help in the garden?
(a) She was in tune with the living things.
(b) She was doing the wrong things.
(c) She needs some guidance.
(d) She had excellent instincts.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has grown over the wall of the Secret Garden, thus hiding the door?

2. What does Mary do with the key just after she finds it?

3. Who watches over Mary at the beginning of the book?

4. What is Mary told when she is found hiding in the nursery?

5. What does Mary think she hears at night in Misselthwaite?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mrs. Medlock think about the moor?

2. Who is Mary being sent to live with once she is orphaned?

3. What do most people think of Mary when they first meet her at the beginning of the book?

4. What is the large tapestry on the second floor of Misselthwaite Manor hiding?

5. How did Mrs. Craven die?

6. How does Mary feel about Martha's mother from the stories Martha has told Mary about her?

7. What does Mary do when she plays outside in India?

8. When wandering around inside on a rainy day, what interesting fact does Mary find about the rooms on the second floor?

9. What does Ben say about Mary after she has been at Misselthwaite Manor for a month?

10. What does Ben Weatherstaff say about Mary when he sees her with her new gift from Mrs. Sowerby?

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