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 the first question Margaret asks Vida WInter?
(a) Her real name.
(b) What happened to the (missing) thirteenth story in her first book.
(c) An explanation about the rumor that her house is haunted.
(d) Whether Winter is terminally ill and fears death will end her life soon.

2. What are the words that come to Margaret as she struggles to understand them?
(a) "I am afraid of my sister."
(b) "The dead go underground."
(c) "I killed John-the-dig."
(d) "Angelfield should burn."

3. Who is found dead at the base of a ladder in the garden?
(a) John-the-dig.
(b) The new boy, Proctor.
(c) John-the dig's nephew.
(d) The doctor.

4. What does the chapter title, "Box of Lives" refer to?
(a) Vida Winter says she keeps "opening up the box" to reveal the secrets of her past.
(b) Winter keeps many items from her past in a safe in her bedroom; she finally shows the box to Margaret.
(c) Margaret keeps a 3x5 card on many people, and she keepst these cards in a box.
(d) Margaret finds an old box near the ruins of the old church.

5. What is one source of income for the people left at Angelfield?
(a) The pear orchard on the property.
(b) People come to look at John-the-dig's topiary garden.
(c) The game in the park; hunters are willing to pay to hunt.
(d) Bottles of wine in their basement.