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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One, Beginnings: Merrily and the Perambulator and Dr. and Mrs. Maudsley.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is surprising about the appearance of the letter for Margaret?
(a) Each line is in a new color of ink.
(b) Margaret's name is mispelled, and there is no return address.
(c) It is handwritten by a person who is either a child or an invalid.
(d) The type is faint and barely recognizable.

2. What is peculiar about the many interviews given by Vida Winter?
(a) She has never told the truth about her life.
(b) She finds it fun to make every reporter cry.
(c) She prides herself on her honesty, despite her painful past.
(d) She will never speak for more than thirty minutes.

3. Margaret says of herself, "gradually, my reading became less random." What becomes the primary interest, or focus, of her reading?
(a) Legends and superstitions centered on the number thirteen.
(b) The lives and memoirs of obscure writers.
(c) Historical fiction, especially from the thirteen century.
(d) Families torn apart by war and violence.

4. When the doctor comes to Angelfield, he recommends what?
(a) That Isabelle be sent to an asylum.
(b) That the entire house be closed down as uninhabitable.
(c) That her children be removed from her.
(d) That the meals must change as their diets were insufficient.

5. Where does the first meeting between Margaret Lea and Vida Winter take place?
(a) In the hallway outside Margaret's bedroom, late at night.
(b) On the moors, outside the house.
(c) In Winter's library.
(d) In the kitchen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Vida Winter is a prolific and well-known author. Besides her fame, what can be said about her physical appearance?

2. Margaret says, "the hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours." What does she do during these hours?

3. What is the landscape like on the trip north to Vida Winter's house?

4. How did Merrily get her name?

5. When Vida Winter cries out a name, Margaret realizes that she and Winter have something in common. What is it?

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