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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) Screams for her parents.
(b) Plots to run away.
(c) Practices her knitting.
(d) Pretends to plant a garden.

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

3. Why is Mary so disappointed to hear the rain falling when she awakes the night after meeting her uncle?
(a) She knows the rain will keep her from going outside.
(b) She is afraid too much water will hurt her garden.
(c) She wanted a good night's sleep.
(d) She fears it will keep her uncle from leaving again as he had planned.

4. What does Martha tell Mary the mysterious sound she hears at night really is?
(a) The chimneys.
(b) Rain.
(c) The wind.
(d) A child.

5. What is Mrs. Medlock's first impression of Mary?
(a) She is small and hurt.
(b) She is sickly, plain and spoiled.
(c) She is disagreeable and headstrong.
(d) She is kind, sweet and loving.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mrs. Medlock think of the moor?

3. How does Mary spend most of her days after finding the Garden?

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

5. Who does Mary count as one of the people she likes that makes Dickon laugh when he first meets her?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is Mary most afraid of when she first brings Dickon to her garden?

6. When she first enters the garden, what does Mary do to help something start to grow?

7. Who/what is the first living creature to which Mary makes a connection?

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

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

10. What is the source of the crying sound that Mary has been hearing at night?

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