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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. What news does Vida Winter's doctor give to Margaret?
(a) He tells her that Vida WInter has no more than one week to live.
(b) He tells Margaret that it would be wise to begin wearing gloves and a mask when she is near Winters.
(c) He advises her to go behind WInter's back and contact her twin.
(d) He tells her Vida Winter is terminally ill.

2. When she has trouble falling asleep the night after receiving the letter, what does Margaret do?
(a) She decides to try one of the "dark spells" she has read about earlier in the day.
(b) She reads everything she can about twins.
(c) She takes a rare book from the shop and begins to read it.
(d) She wakes up her mother and makes her talk about her twin.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Vida Winter is a prolific and well-known author. Besides her fame, what can be said about her physical appearance?

2. The following is said about Vida Winter's appearance:

3. Margaret says, "the hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours." What does she do during these hours?

4. When Ms. Winter is in pain, what is the metaphor she uses to describe this pain?

5. At what age does Margaret discover she was a twin, and that this twin died at birth?

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