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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What inspired the story "The Tale of Two Bad Mice"?
(a) A story a little girl told Beatrix.
(b) Mice Beatrix caught in her kitchen.
(c) Norman's pet mice.
(d) Two ceramic mice figurines.

2. Who cracked the code in Beatrix's diary?
(a) Mr. Lowe.
(b) Mr. Linder.
(c) Mr. Limpet.
(d) Mr. Little.

3. What did Bertram's art focus on?
(a) The Scottish countryside.
(b) The Lake District.
(c) The English coast.
(d) Cityscapes.

4. According to Chapter 4, Beatrix worried her publisher wouldn't like ________________.
(a) Her rhymes.
(b) Her characters.
(c) Her water color illustrations.
(d) Her story's moral.

5. For what type of equality did Beatrix's grandfather campaign?
(a) Racial equality.
(b) Workplace equality.
(c) Gender equality.
(d) Religious equality.

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

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

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

9. What did Beatrix ask to sketch in Chapter 4?
(a) Shop interiors.
(b) Farm animals.
(c) People.
(d) Cottages.

10. What did Beatrix's parents discourage?
(a) Painting and writing.
(b) Gossip.
(c) Crying.
(d) Vanity.

11. Where would the Potter family go in the summer?
(a) To Italy.
(b) To France.
(c) To Scotland.
(d) To Spain.

12. What was the surname of Beatrix's cousin Caroline?
(a) Hutton.
(b) Harking.
(c) Houston.
(d) Holmes.

13. After Beatrix's brother left home, what type of animal did Beatrix focus on?
(a) Mice.
(b) Groundhogs.
(c) Badgers.
(d) Owls.

14. How old were Beatrix and Norman when they decided to marry?
(a) Nearly thirty years old.
(b) Nearly forty years old.
(c) Thirty-five years old.
(d) Forty-five years old.

15. How many copies of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" did Beatrix have printed originally?
(a) Two hundred-fifty.
(b) Five hundred.
(c) One hundred.
(d) Fifty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Beatrix's father's profession?

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

3. Norman died of________.

4. In which season did Beatrix publish "The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin"?

5. What did Warnes tell Beatrix she would have to do if she wanted him to publish "The Tale of Peter Rabbit"?

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