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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Beatrix's brother confess when his parents objected to Beatrix's second engagement?

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

3. How did Beatrix set about protecting her chosen area of England?

4. In Chapter 5, what is said to have become a problem for Beatrix as she got more famous?

5. What does Lane believe was Beatrix's best work after her 'golden decade'?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Beatrix settle her mother after her father's death?

2. What interested Beatrix at Troutbeck Park?

3. According to Lane, what put an end to Beatrix's best writing years?

4. What does Lane suggest allowed Beatrix to add a deeper level of reality to her characters?

5. What does Lane say caused "Sister Anne" to fail?

6. What became a problem for Beatrix due to her success and increasing fame?

7. What does Lane say about the settings of Beatrix's stories?

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

9. What happened in Beatrix's life just before World War I ended?

10. How was Beatrix treated in America?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Beatrix's childhood. How did Beatrix spend her childhood? Did she have a happy childhood? What were her interests and hobbies as a child? What was her personality like as a child?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Beatrix's life after she married. How did her life change after she married William Heelis? Why did she stop writing? What did she become passionate about? How did her personality change?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the climax of the biography. What takes place during the climax of the book? Why is this a climactic time in Beatrix's life? How does this time period impact her life?

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