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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Summer Holidays.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Beatrix live without during her youth?
(a) Discipline.
(b) Superstition.
(c) Religion.
(d) Literature.

2. How did Beatrix's personality change as time went on in her youth?
(a) She became serious.
(b) She became short-tempered.
(c) She became more shy.
(d) She became distrustful.

3. What did Beatrix and her brother make together as children?
(a) Sculpting clay.
(b) Root beer.
(c) Soap.
(d) Ink.

4. What did Beatrix's personality as a child lead her to do?
(a) Ignore her parents' wisdom.
(b) Approach strangers.
(c) Create her own world.
(d) Make many friends.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How are Beatrix's grandparents described?

3. What was Beatrix's father's name?

4. What were some qualities that Beatrix admired that were found on her grandmother's side?

5. What would the servants do while the Potter family visited the sea?

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