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

2. Who does Margaret surmise must have tampered with the ladder's safety latch?
(a) The doctor.
(b) Adeline.
(c) Ambrose Proctor.
(d) The Missus.

3. What is surprising about the appearance of the letter for Margaret?
(a) The type is faint and barely recognizable.
(b) It is handwritten by a person who is either a child or an invalid.
(c) Margaret's name is mispelled, and there is no return address.
(d) Each line is in a new color of ink.

4. Where does Adeline look for Charlie?
(a) In Isabelle's room.
(b) In London.
(c) At the bottom of the pond, close to where the twins played.
(d) A small hovel, or house in the woods.

5. When Ms. Winter is in pain, what is the metaphor she uses to describe this pain?
(a) A wolf.
(b) A curtain that suffocates her.
(c) A tiger.
(d) A storm with brutal winds.

Short Answer Questions

1. As a child, whose name did Margaret write often in the phonetic alphabet?

2. In their first interview, Winter reveals to Margaret a painful bit of her history earlier than she wanted to.

3. The following adjectives best describe Charlie as a child:

4. In Aurelius' "inheritance," there is a page from what book?

5. Who does John-the-Dig teach about trimming the topiary garden?

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