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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. When Vida Winter cries out a name, Margaret realizes that she and Winter have something in common. What is it?
(a) They have both studied spells of "dark arts" from the 13th century.
(b) Neither had a happy childhood because of an emotionless mother.
(c) They both grieve the loss of a twin.
(d) They are related; both share a common ancestor.

2. What is the phrase from the letter Margaret has received that keeps running through Margaret's mind?
(a) "Authors are liars."
(b) "I need to find myself."
(c) "You alone can help me."
(d) "Tell me the truth."

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

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

5. What peculiar record does Margaret find in an almanac about Charlie Angelfield?
(a) He was declared legally dead.
(b) He wrote a newspaper article about the hauntings of ghosts at Angelfield.
(c) He died on the night that the twins were born, making WInter's story untrue.
(d) His death was recent, only two years before she met Ms. Winter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Merrily often do while she is hanging clothes or doing housework?

2. What is surprising about the appearance of the letter for Margaret?

3. What is tragic about the birth of Isabelle, the twins' mother?

4. Vida Winter says she starts one book as soon as she finishes another because she is afraid to confront which person who keeps trying to get her attention?

5. What is the landscape like on the trip north to Vida Winter's house?

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