1. What causes Margaret to run out of Angelfield on her first visit there?
(a) She hears a baby crying outside.
(b) A woman in white comes after her with a knife.
(c) She hears someone scream her name.
(d) The doorknob she is holding begins to turn from the other side.

2. As the twins grow, what disturbing pattern emerges regarding them in the village and surrounding houses?
(a) The twins are caught running without clothes on through the middle of town.
(b) The twins talk of drowning their mother and poisoning the servants.
(c) The twins begin to frighten smaller children with stories about ghosts.
(d) The twins walk into unlocked houses and take what they want.

3. What does Merrily often do while she is hanging clothes or doing housework?
(a) Asks the Angelfield twins to babysit.
(b) Tells ghost stories that frighten the twins.
(c) Chats with Isabelle Angelfield.
(d) Sets her baby outside in her yard.

4. Why does Hester think she has seen a ghost?
(a) She sees a woman in white three different times in the garden.
(b) She sees lights on the moors and the faint shape of a woman on horseback.
(c) She sees the twins together, even though they are physically in two different places.
(d) She hears singing coming from the library. When she enters, there is no one there, but the locked door is open.

5. In the first interview, Margaret asks for three bits of information. What is the response to this from Vida Winter?
(a) She refuses to answer Margaret, saying she (Ms. Winter) will tell the story on her terms.
(b) She refuses, and threatens to find another author.
(c) She gives many examples from stories about the importance of three.
(d) She laughs, saying that five is a better number.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Winter returns to the telling of her story, she talks of the village men asking for Dr. Maudsley's help with the twins. How does the doctor first attempt to solve the problem?

2. What experiment (for research's sake) do Hester and the doctor carry out?

3. What does Margaret do when she hears a mysterious sound late at night?

4. What missing bit of information in the "book pages" of the Banbury Herald disappoints Margaret?

5. What does Aurelius Love bring to Margaret after she falls?

(see the answer key)

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