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

2. What is of particular concern to John-the-dig after Charlie disappears?
(a) How he could get a doctor to take care of the Missus.
(b) Who would pay him and pay the bills at Anglefield in Charlie's absence.
(c) His topiary garden was becoming negelcted.
(d) The girls were at marrying age; who should marry them?

3. What is Margaret's opinion about Vida Winter's writing?
(a) She is surprised that Winter seems to have stolen one on Margaret's stories.
(b) She is frustrated by the happy endings and predictable plots.
(c) She loves it, and spends days doing nothing else but reading Winter's books.
(d) She likes the writing, but has no interest in meeting WInter.

4. 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 braid her hair.
(d) To cut her hair.

5. Despite their fighting, Emmeline gives Adeline :
(a) A green emerald ring.
(b) Promise that she would never marry so as to not separate the twins.
(c) Her diary.
(d) A copy of Jane Eyre.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the proof Margaret sees to prove she was a twin?

2. Is the report of the Angelfield fire confirmed by the Banbury Herald newspaper?

3. What are the words that come to Margaret as she struggles to understand them?

4. What does John-the-dig decide to do about Charlie's disappearance?

5. Who is found dead at the base of a ladder in the garden?

(see the answer key)

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