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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, The Beatrix Potter Books.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Beatrix feel growing up as a result of not being a part of her parents' lives?
(a) Independent.
(b) Lonely.
(c) Unwanted.
(d) Free.

2. What enabled Beatrix to add a deeper level of reality to her characters?
(a) Basing them on people she knew.
(b) Dressing them in clothes.
(c) Their real-life counterparts which she cared for.
(d) Providing illustrations of them.

3. What began to influence Beatrix's personality during her childhood?
(a) Her Roscoe heredity.
(b) Her Crompton heredity.
(c) Her Potter heredity.
(d) Her Leech heredity.

4. What 'vulgarity' does Lane note Beatrix's works lacked?
(a) Contemporary references.
(b) Violence.
(c) Slang words.
(d) Commercialism.

5. What did Beatrix's parents object to in Chapter 4?
(a) Her distance from them.
(b) Her feud with her brother.
(c) Her charitable donations.
(d) Her stories' subject matter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Lane NOT say is expressed in Beatrix's works?

2. As children, what would Beatrix and her brother do with animal corpses?

3. How was Beatrix viewed by others as she aged in Bolton Gardens?

4. How are Caroline's political views described?

5. What kind of message did Beatrix's setting help convey?

(see the answer key)

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