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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Beatrix do in the countryside while visiting Caroline?
(a) Photographed animals.
(b) Wrote poetry.
(c) Hunted fowl.
(d) Caught butterflied.

2. What did Beatrix and her brother restore together as children?
(a) A printing press.
(b) A buggy.
(c) A rabbit hutch.
(d) A bicycle.

3. What surprised Beatrix about the Warnes' family life?
(a) Its coldness.
(b) Its lavishness.
(c) Its vibrancy.
(d) Its solemnity.

4. Where was Beatrix born?
(a) Willowdown Valley.
(b) Meadowbrook.
(c) Clifton Heights.
(d) Bolton Gardens.

5. How long did it take to translate the code in Beatrix's diary?
(a) One year.
(b) Three years.
(c) Ten years.
(d) Five years.

6. Whom did Beatrix's Uncle Roscoe arrange for her to meet in 1896?
(a) The Director of the Royal Ballet.
(b) The Director of the Royal Conservatory of Music.
(c) The Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens.
(d) The Director of the Royal Society of Arts.

7. How are Caroline's political views described?
(a) As liberal.
(b) As radical.
(c) As eccentric.
(d) As conservative.

8. What was the follow-up book to Peter Rabbit?
(a) "The Tale of Benjamin Bunny."
(b) "The Tale of Velvet Bunny."
(c) "The Tale of Poppy Bunny."
(d) "The Tale of Flopsy Bunny."

9. How was Beatrix viewed by others as she aged in Bolton Gardens?
(a) As glamorous.
(b) As creative.
(c) As naive.
(d) As eccentric.

10. To what religious group did Beatrix's parents belong?
(a) The Mormons.
(b) The Presbyterians.
(c) The Unitarians.
(d) The Lutherans.

11. According to the diary, what did Beatrix resent?
(a) Becoming an adult.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Living in the city.
(d) Her critics.

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

13. What did Beatrix write a paper about which was given to the Linnaean Society of London?
(a) Disappearing tree species.
(b) Mold spores.
(c) Ferns.
(d) Mosses native to Scotland.

14. What was Beatrix's brother's name?
(a) Alistair.
(b) Elliot.
(c) Dunstan.
(d) Bertram.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Beatrix NOT think was beautiful during her trips to Scotland?

2. Who cracked the code in Beatrix's diary?

3. How large was the original "The Tale of Peter Rabbit"?

4. Why was Beatrix easily exhausted at one point as an adult?

5. How many copies of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" did Beatrix have printed originally?

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