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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Beatrix do with flowers after her brother left home?
(a) Press them.
(b) Trade their seeds.
(c) Sell them.
(d) Draw them.

2. What legend did Beatrix's parents respect?
(a) The Potter legend.
(b) The Crompton legend.
(c) The Roscoe legend.
(d) The Leech legend.

3. What was Beatrix's father's profession?
(a) General.
(b) Author.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Barrister.

4. Why didn't Beatrix's parents want her to marry Norman?
(a) He was wealthy.
(b) He was a publisher.
(c) He was a social climber.
(d) He was younger than Beatrix.

5. Which member of the Potter family was not interested in art?
(a) Mrs. Potter.
(b) Beatrix.
(c) Mr. Potter.
(d) Uncle Roscoe Henry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did Beatrix finish "The Tale of Peter Rabbit"?

2. Why did the people at the meeting in 1896 dislike Beatrix's drawings?

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

4. What did Bertram's art focus on?

5. What was the name of Beatrix's hedgehog character?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Beatrix deal with the pain of Norman's death?

2. Describe the Potters' interest in art.

3. How did Beatrix go about printing her own copies of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit"?

4. What does the reader learn about the Crompton family history?

5. At the end of Chapter 1, what does the reader learn about Beatrix's beliefs?

6. How is Beatrix's cousin Caroline Hutton described in Chapter 4?

7. What kind of job did Beatrix's father have? What did he do in his spare time?

8. Describe Mrs. Edmund Potter, Beatrix's grandmother.

9. How was Beatrix viewed socially as she grew up and became an adult?

10. Why did Beatrix write letters to sick children in the 1880s? What were the letters about?

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