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

2. The following can be said about the bookshop:
(a) All of the answers are true.
(b) Students come to sell and resell textbooks.
(c) There are seven rooms of used books.
(d) Most of the store's income is gained through rare book transactions.

3. In the beginning of the book, who has sent Margaret a surprising letter?
(a) Margaret's twin, separated from Margaret for years.
(b) Vida Winter, an author.
(c) The manager of Vida Winter's estate.
(d) Vida Winter's daughter.

4. 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?
(a) He, according to common practice of the time, uses leeches to try to clean their blood.
(b) He sends his wife to talk to the twin's mother.
(c) He diagnoses insanity and recommends that the twins be sent to an asylum.
(d) He visits every day for two weeks and then gives up in failure.

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