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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. What is painful to Aurelius about the story he tells to Margaret?
(a) He realizes that he was the cause of a murder.
(b) He realizes that Mrs. Love never really loved him.
(c) He realizes that he was abandonned by his parents.
(d) He realizes he was related to Isabelle and suffers from the same disease.

2. In literature, what are examples of the "Rule of Three" which Vida Winter cites?
(a) Three drunken sailors, three Christmas hens.
(b) Three of the trinity, three of Satan.
(c) Fisherman's three wishes, three Billy Goats Gruff.
(d) Three sides of a golden triangle, three crowns on three kings.

3. What news does Vida Winter's doctor give to Margaret?
(a) He tells her that Vida WInter has no more than one week to live.
(b) He advises her to go behind WInter's back and contact her twin.
(c) He tells Margaret that it would be wise to begin wearing gloves and a mask when she is near Winters.
(d) He tells her Vida Winter is terminally ill.

4. What pain does Margaret occasionally feel, especially at night?
(a) A pain in her side.
(b) A burning sensation on her scars, left over from a fire.
(c) Headaches.
(d) Cramps in her hand, from writing so much.

5. Vida Winter says she starts one book as soon as she finishes another because she is afraid to confront which person who keeps trying to get her attention?
(a) Her father.
(b) Herself as a younger person.
(c) Her dead mother.
(d) Her twin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two characters meet after many years in private rooms at Winter's house?

2. In her telling of the Angelfield story, what does Vida Winter begin to do that she has not done before?

3. Hester talks in her diary of the joy of working closely with someone on what project?

4. One day, instead of writing/interviewing, what task does Vida Winter ask of Margaret?

5. What promise does Margaret ask of Winter before committing to the writing of her biography?

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