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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 tell Collin when she gets to his room during his hysterics?
(a) That there is nothing wrong with him.
(b) That he is spoiled and selfish and deserves what he gets.
(c) That his nurse is trying to kill him.
(d) That she, and everbody else, hates him.

2. What does Mary choose to do after her lunch on the first nice day after all the rain?
(a) Meet Dickon's mother.
(b) Visit Collin.
(c) Return to work in the garden.
(d) Ask her uncle for permission to be in the Garden.

3. 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 throws a tantrum.
(b) He forbids Mary to ever speak to his father again.
(c) He fires Martha.
(d) He asks her to read a book to him.

4. Why does Collin keep the portrait of his mother covered?
(a) He is angry with her for dying.
(b) It scares him.
(c) He thinks she is laughing at him
(d) It makes him sad.

5. What kept Ben from fully keeping his promise to Mrs. Craven?
(a) His arthritus.
(b) The orders from Mr. Craven.
(c) He got too busy with his other chores.
(d) His fear of her ghost in the garden.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dickon say keeps him so strong?

2. 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?

3. What does Mr. Craven send Mary after she asks for her bit of earth?

4. What surprises Martha about Mary's chance meeting Collin?

5. What stops the surprise visitor to the garden from lecturing Mary?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Colin now able to take the curtain off of his mother's portrait?

2. Why did Ben continue pruning the secret garden after Mr. Craven had ordered it to be locked up?

3. What does Mary tell Colin once he has calmed down from his hysterics?

4. The day after Colin's tantrum, what does Dr. Craven prescribe for him?

5. What does Colin threaten to do to Mary to make sure she will come to visit him?

6. What does Ben do when he starts to climb over the wall of the garden and sees Mary there?

7. Why is Mary so hesitant to tell Colin that she has found the garden?

8. What gift does Mary find from her uncle when she gets to her room after her fight with Colin?

9. What does Colin do when he first sees his mother's garden?

10. Why did no one in the garden feel that Mrs. Sowerby was intruding when she came into the garden unannounced?

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