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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. How did Beatrix describe the interactions of her Troutbeck sheep?
(a) As riveting.
(b) As a drama.
(c) As merciless.
(d) As spellbinding.

2. What is a common theme in Beatrix's work?
(a) Misbehaving children.
(b) Revenge.
(c) Hunter and prey.
(d) Prince and pauper.

3. Over a span of how many years did Beatrix's best writing take place?
(a) Three years.
(b) Ten years.
(c) Seventeen years.
(d) Twenty-one years.

4. What does the author say of Beatrix's art works?
(a) They were well executed.
(b) They were amateurish.
(c) They were sweet.
(d) They were easily imitated by children.

5. Where did Beatrix find her mother a new home after the War?
(a) In Kent.
(b) Near Lake Windermere.
(c) A few blocks away from Bolton Gardens.
(d) At a farm near Hill Top.

Short Answer Questions

1. What breed of sheep did Beatrix keep at Troutbeck Park?

2. What did Beatrix do to her farmhouse one year after buying the farm?

3. What did the person who visited Beatrix in 1927 discover?

4. What animal did Beatrix note as being graceful and intelligent?

5. What did Beatrix find difficult about farm life?

Short Essay Questions

1. What side projects did Beatrix pass her time with when she was not at her farm?

2. In what way was Beatrix's purchase of Hill Top Farm symbolic?

3. What softened Beatrix's reticence for interacting with the public?

4. How did Beatrix's parents react to her engagement to Mr. Heelis? How did her brother defend her?

5. What does Lane believe was Beatrix's greatest achievement after her 'golden decade' of writing?

6. How was Beatrix treated in America?

7. Why did Beatrix publish "The Fairy Caravan"? Why didn't she release it in Britain?

8. What inspired Beatrix's story, "Roly-Poly Pudding"?

9. What were Beatrix's initial plans for Hill Top Farm and its tenant farmer?

10. How did Beatrix feel about old age?

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