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 is reluctant to let Margaret leave for a few days. Why?
(a) Winter and Margaret have become friends; she wants her companionship.
(b) Winter is afraid that Margraet will contact her twin sister Emmeline.
(c) WInter is afraid that Margaret will tell the outside world her story before it is concluded.
(d) Winter is terminally ill and wants to complete the telling of her story before she dies.

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

3. What is peculiar about the many interviews given by Vida Winter?
(a) She finds it fun to make every reporter cry.
(b) She will never speak for more than thirty minutes.
(c) She has never told the truth about her life.
(d) She prides herself on her honesty, despite her painful past.

4. Margaret says of herself, "gradually, my reading became less random." What becomes the primary interest, or focus, of her reading?
(a) The lives and memoirs of obscure writers.
(b) Legends and superstitions centered on the number thirteen.
(c) Historical fiction, especially from the thirteen century.
(d) Families torn apart by war and violence.

5. What is one overwhelming first impression of Vida Winter's house?
(a) The fragrance of lilacs.
(b) The laughter of children.
(c) It is entirely silent.
(d) An odd odor that reminds Margaret of a funeral home.