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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. After meeting Emmeline and confronting Vida WInter about her sister, what does Margaret learn about Emmeline?
(a) Emmeline is dying.
(b) Emmeline has been mentally ill, but she is getting better.
(c) Emmeline is mostly deaf and partly blind.
(d) Emmeline has not spoken in eighteen years.

2. What is one peculiar aspect of the twins?
(a) One laughs constantly; the other cries constantly.
(b) They speak in their own language.
(c) The tear out their own hair.
(d) They are identical except for their hair color.

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. After years of neglect, what happens to Angelfield while the twins are still living there?
(a) Rats run everywhere.
(b) The winter storms can be felt through the cracks in the walls.
(c) The roof collapses.
(d) The sheriff condemns it, saying it is not inhabitable.

5. Instead of going home for Christmas, where does Margaret go instead?
(a) Angelfield.
(b) To see her mother.
(c) To London.
(d) To look for Hester.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vida Winter give to Margaret as she is leaving?

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

3. Why does Aurelius like to come to Angelfield?

4. How does Margaret help Vida Winter after the telling of these painful memories?

5. What is the first question Margaret asks Vida WInter?

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