This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, Middles: Everybody Has a Story, December Days, Sisters, A Diary and a Train, Demolishing the Past, and Hester's Diary II,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where, and with whom, will Margaret eat her meals?
(a) With Winter and her extended family in the large and noisy kitchen.
(b) Alone, in her bedroom.
(c) Sometimes alone and sometimes in the kitchen with the children.
(d) Always in the large dining room with Winter.

2. What happens to Roland, Isabelle's husband?
(a) He is called to military service and dies on the battlefield.
(b) He leaves Isabelle for another woman soon after their marriage.
(c) He leaves for America, promising Isabelle he would send for her.
(d) He dies of pneunomia.

3. What change begins to occur in schedule of interviews between Margaret and Winter?
(a) Now the doctor is always present.
(b) Each story telling session becomes shorter.
(c) The women meet no longer at regular times; the interviews occur day and night at sporadic times.
(d) Each story telling session becomes longer.

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

5. Why does Margaret use the phonetic alphabet after her night in the garden?
(a) She knows that twins have a secret language, and she tries to help the twins.
(b) To leave a message for the gardener.
(c) To try to decipher the words spoken by the person she saw in the garden.
(d) To impress Winter with her skill.