This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One, Beginnings: Merrily and the Perambulator and Dr. and Mrs. Maudsley.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Vida Winter learned most of the family history by listening to whose stories?
(a) The stable boy who was like her old brother.
(b) The Missus, who was the main kitchen servant.
(c) Her uncle, who wrote down the history.
(d) Her grandmother.

2. Charlie, Isabelle's brother, is:
(a) Actually a step brother, and is older by twelve years.
(b) Her twin.
(c) Older than Isabelle, by only two years.
(d) Older than Isabelle, by nine years.

3. What is peculiar about the way Margaret must read "The Thirteen Tales?'
(a) Because of a printing error, she keeps turning it upside down.
(b) She must wear white gloves.
(c) Every thirteenth page, she searches for a clue to a mystery.
(d) She doesn't want anyone to see her reading it, so she disguises it.

4. What happens to Roland, Isabelle's husband?
(a) He leaves Isabelle for another woman soon after their marriage.
(b) He dies of pneunomia.
(c) He leaves for America, promising Isabelle he would send for her.
(d) He is called to military service and dies on the battlefield.

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