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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, The Fairy Caravan.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Caroline have a home?
(a) Haresfield.
(b) Harescombe Grange.
(c) Huddinknoll.
(d) Holcombe Hill.

2. What did the person who visited Beatrix in 1927 discover?
(a) She hated farm life.
(b) She was unhappy in her marriage.
(c) She did not plan to write anymore.
(d) She was losing her memory.

3. What was against Caroline's beliefs?
(a) Women working.
(b) Eating meat.
(c) Charity.
(d) Organized religion.

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

5. What would Beatrix and her brother often do with the animals and plants they observed?
(a) Give them new names.
(b) Write stories about them.
(c) Photograph them.
(d) Paint and draw them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What inspired the story "The Tale of Two Bad Mice"?

2. In Chapter 4, what was Beatrix said to have thought was "the crown of a woman's life"?

3. Who took care of Beatrix's property during World War I?

4. What kind of comicality does Lane say is expressed on each page of Beatrix's books?

5. What was Beatrix's parents' approach to religion?

(see the answer key)

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