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. Who is Hester?
(a) The deacon's wife, sent to help the twins.
(b) A neighbor who becomes the twin's friend.
(c) The children's new governess.
(d) Charlie's new wife.

2. As Margaret settles into her bedroom on her first night in Vida Winter's house, she rearranges which aspect of the bedroom?
(a) She takes down the heavy curtains from the windows.
(b) The canopy bed frightens her because she cannot see into the room, so she removes the curtain.
(c) A picture on the wall troubles her, so she turns it around to face the wall.
(d) She moves the heavy chair nearer to the fireplace in order to stay warm.

3. What is the disturbing event that take place between the two twins after Hester has left?
(a) The girls become physically attracted to the same young man.
(b) Emmeline attacks and harms Adeline.
(c) Adeline attacks and harms Emmeline.
(d) It is implied that Charlie, their uncle, sexually abuses them.

4. What news comes from the asylum about Isabelle?
(a) She has escaped from the asylum and has been spotted in London.
(b) Isabelle is dead.
(c) She would be returning later in the week.
(d) She is sick, near death, and keeps asking for Charlie.

5. What item of Charles Dickens, the author, does Vida Winter discuss with Margaret?
(a) The exact desk which Dickens owned which Margaret is using to write.
(b) A picture of Dickens with Vida Winter as a child.
(c) A forgotten manuscript by the famous author.
(d) A picture of him with characters above his head.

Short Answer Questions

1. Margaret realizes that this person may still be alive and could answer many questions about the twins' childhood. She writes a letter asking an investigator to find whom?

2. How does Margaret arrange a secret meeting in the secret quarters at Vida WInter's house?

3. Where and with whom does Margaret Lea spend her days?

4. When Vida Winter cries out a name, Margaret realizes that she and Winter have something in common. What is it?

5. Who was Kitty?

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