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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 is the last stop of the train on Mary's journey to Misselthwaite Manor with Mrs. Medlock?
(a) Misselthwaite Station.
(b) Thwaite Station.
(c) Missel Mile Station.
(d) Craven Station.

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

3. What does Mary do with the key just after she finds it?
(a) Slips it into her pocket.
(b) Gives it to Ben.
(c) Hides it in her room where Mrs. Medlock will not find it.
(d) Re-buries it and then marks the spot.

4. What does Mary hate most about her life at Misslethwaite?
(a) She misses her parents.
(b) She is not getting educated.
(c) There is no one to talk to her.
(d) It has become too routine.

5. What does Mary think the moor is when she first sees it?
(a) The sea.
(b) A desert.
(c) A barren wasteland.
(d) A forest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first thing that Mary hears when she gets to Misselthwaite Manor?

2. What does Mary do as she plays alone on the day the Cholera breaks out?

3. How does Mary describe how she feels when she wakes up on the day the Cholera breaks out?

4. Why does Mary's uncle want to see her when he returns from his journey?

5. Why is Martha so sad to see most of Mary's breakfast go untouched?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Mary tell Martha that she wants after her first time inside the garden?

4. How did Mrs. Craven die?

5. Why is Mary so surprised to hear that Dickon likes her when the two first meet?

6. What does Mrs. Sowerby purchase for Mary to make her happy?

7. Why does Mrs. Medlock tell Mary that she will not see Mr. Craven while she is at Misselthwaite?

8. Why does Mr. Craven decide to finally meet Mary?

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

10. What is Mrs. Medlock's first impression of Mary?

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