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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How large was the original "The Tale of Peter Rabbit"?
(a) Seven by nine inches.
(b) Four by five inches.
(c) Eight by eleven inches.
(d) Three inches square.

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

3. How are Beatrix's grandparents described?
(a) Cold and standoffish.
(b) Original and wild.
(c) Sad and forgiving.
(d) Mean and cranky.

4. 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.

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

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

7. Beatrix's childhood nurse is described as ________________.
(a) A hillbilly.
(b) A Liberal.
(c) An atheist.
(d) A Scottish Calvinist.

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

9. What year did Beatrix finish "The Tale of Peter Rabbit"?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1901.

10. What did Warnes tell Beatrix she would have to do if she wanted him to publish "The Tale of Peter Rabbit"?
(a) Find a more experienced illustrator.
(b) Cut the story down by five pages.
(c) Color her drawings.
(d) Rewrite the story to be about humans.

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

12. As children, what would Beatrix and her brother do with animal corpses?
(a) Skin them.
(b) Draw them.
(c) Burn them.
(d) Bury them.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After Beatrix's brother left home, what type of animal did Beatrix focus on?

2. What surprised Beatrix about the Warnes' family life?

3. Where would the Potter family go in the summer?

4. Who was Canon Rawnsely?

5. Why didn't Beatrix's parents want her to marry Norman?

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