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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One, Beginnings: Dickens's Study, The Almanacs, In the Archives of the Banbury Herald, Ruins, The Friendly Giant, and Graves,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is in the perambulator for the dangerous ride downhill?
(a) Merrily's baby.
(b) Emmaline.
(c) Adeline.
(d) The neighbor's dog.

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

3. When Isabelle returns after being away for several months, she comes back with what or whom?
(a) Two packages, which are two babies.
(b) An emerald ring that her father suspected was stolen.
(c) A handsome husband.
(d) Her father's money from a bank in London.

4. When Ms. Winter is in pain, what is the metaphor she uses to describe this pain?
(a) A storm with brutal winds.
(b) A curtain that suffocates her.
(c) A wolf.
(d) A tiger.

5. How did Merrily get her name?
(a) Her name was Mary Leigh, and she laughed often.
(b) Her mother had a clear, contagious laugh.
(c) Her parents named her Merrily.
(d) When she was little, she sang the song called "Merrily, Happily, Longingly."

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Margaret to run out of Angelfield on her first visit there?

2. What is the phrase from the letter Margaret has received that keeps running through Margaret's mind?

3. What does John -the-Dig do at Angelfield?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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