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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. Why is Angelfield scheduled for demolition?
(a) A hotel is to be built on the site.
(b) A golf course is to be built on the site.
(c) Kids like to play in the ruins, but the falling walls are dangerous.
(d) A small airport is to be built on the site.

2. What is peculiar about the way Margaret must read "The Thirteen Tales?'
(a) Because of a printing error, she keeps turning it upside down.
(b) She must wear white gloves.
(c) She doesn't want anyone to see her reading it, so she disguises it.
(d) Every thirteenth page, she searches for a clue to a mystery.

3. How did Merrily get her name?
(a) Her mother had a clear, contagious laugh.
(b) When she was little, she sang the song called "Merrily, Happily, Longingly."
(c) Her name was Mary Leigh, and she laughed often.
(d) Her parents named her Merrily.

4. What change begins to occur in schedule of interviews between Margaret and Winter?
(a) Each story telling session becomes shorter.
(b) Now the doctor is always present.
(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.

5. John-the-dig hires someone to:
(a) Be a governess for the twins.
(b) Help in the garden.
(c) Replace "the missus," cook, and help with housework.
(d) Repair the walls and fallen roof of the estate.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does the roof at Angelfield get worse soon after Hester leaves?

3. When she learns the truth about being a twin, Margaret feels:

4. Margaret says of herself, "gradually, my reading became less random." What becomes the primary interest, or focus, of her reading?

5. Where is Margaret when Emmeline's strange and undecipherable words become clear to her?

(see the answer key)

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