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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary tell Collin when she gets to his room during his hysterics?

2. What does Collin say about Dickon's mother just before he leaves the garden after expressing his thanks to it?

3. What does Mary threaten to do when Collin says he will send Dickon away?

4. How does Dickon's mother know that Mr. Craven is on his way home?

5. What happens to distract Collin from the tree that killed his mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Dickon's mother tell Colin that he will find his mother?

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

3. Why does Colin have to wait so long to see the garden after he and Mary make the plans to go there?

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

5. What is so astonishing to Mrs. Medlock and Dr. Craven when they see Mary and Colin in his room together?

6. What does Colin plant in the garden on his first visit there?

7. What is Colin afraid will give away his improving health to the staff?

8. Why is Colin not able to walk when he first starts coming to the garden?

9. What did Mary learn had made her so unpopular her whole life?

10. On the day after Colin's tantrum, what does Mary do for him that makes him laugh?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role does symbolism play in the story and where does it appear? How is the plot altered by the presence of these symbols?

Essay Topic 2

How do Mary and Colin change through the course of the book and what causes these changes?

Essay Topic 3

Susan Sowerby was a minor character whose presence made a big difference in the plot. How did she accomplish this? What are some ways that her presence however brief, altered the outcome of the plot? What would have happened differently if Susan Sowerby had not been in the book at all?

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