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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 the phrase from the letter Margaret has received that keeps running through Margaret's mind?
(a) "I need to find myself."
(b) "Tell me the truth."
(c) "Authors are liars."
(d) "You alone can help me."

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

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

4. What is one overwhelming first impression of Vida Winter's house?
(a) An odd odor that reminds Margaret of a funeral home.
(b) It is entirely silent.
(c) The laughter of children.
(d) The fragrance of lilacs.

5. Vida Winter learned most of the family history by listening to whose stories?
(a) Her uncle, who wrote down the history.
(b) The Missus, who was the main kitchen servant.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) The stable boy who was like her old brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Margaret's opinion about Vida Winter's writing?

2. In what way did the bookstore help in Margaret's education?

3. What is peculiar about the way Margaret must read "The Thirteen Tales?'

4. What do the children do that make John-the-Dig and Missus sad?

5. What does John -the-Dig do at Angelfield?

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