View a FREE sample

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. When Ms. Winter is in pain, what is the metaphor she uses to describe this pain?
(a) A curtain that suffocates her.
(b) A storm with brutal winds.
(c) A tiger.
(d) A wolf.

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

3. Charlie, Isabelle's brother, is:
(a) Older than Isabelle, by nine years.
(b) Actually a step brother, and is older by twelve years.
(c) Her twin.
(d) Older than Isabelle, by only two years.

4. What is a perambulator?
(a) A heater which uses water.
(b) A baby carriage, or stroller.
(c) An early kind of phonograph or music player.
(d) A constable ( police officer).

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one peculiar aspect of the twins?

2. Who is in the perambulator for the dangerous ride downhill?

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

4. When Isabelle returns after being away for several months, she comes back with what or whom?

5. How many different (untrue) versions of her life has Ms. Winter told to reporters and interviewers?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 355 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample