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. One day, instead of writing/interviewing, what task does Vida Winter ask of Margaret?
(a) To write a poem about her red hair.
(b) To take her outside in the garden.
(c) To cut her hair.
(d) To braid her hair.

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

3. What happens when the doctor tries to calm Hester after her "ghost sighting"?
(a) He hugs her, and they kiss.
(b) She only gets more upset and frightenend.
(c) She refuses his help, thinking he assumes she is weak.
(d) He must give her a sedative, and she faints.

4. Who or what startles Margaret in the ruins of the Angelfield house on her first day of exploration?
(a) The flapping wings of birds.
(b) The sound of a violin.
(c) Herself, in a mirror.
(d) A woman in white; Margaret calls to her, but the woman does not turn.

5. What odd behavior does Isabelle's father display in the early days of Isabelle's life?
(a) He refuses to come out of his room; he does not eat or sleep.
(b) He gallops horses up and down the moors, often in the moonlight.
(c) He wanders the streets of the village at night, drunk.
(d) He becomes convinced people are stealing from him, so he becomes suspicious and miserly.