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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. A woman in white used what to hurt a visitor to the Angelfield house?
(a) A violin.
(b) The cords of the heavy curtains.
(c) A fireplace poker.
(d) Poison.

2. In the first interview, Margaret asks for three bits of information. What is the response to this from Vida Winter?
(a) She refuses, and threatens to find another author.
(b) She gives many examples from stories about the importance of three.
(c) She laughs, saying that five is a better number.
(d) She refuses to answer Margaret, saying she (Ms. Winter) will tell the story on her terms.

3. What physical feature on Vida Winter is distinctive?
(a) Her left arm has three burn marks; a cross-like symbol marks her, not unlike a brand.
(b) She walks with a pronounced limp; one leg is signicantly shorter than the other.
(c) Her hair is a deep black except for thick streaks of silver and white.
(d) Her hand is badly scarred from fire; a mark like a Q was also embedded in the scar.

4. What is one distinctive feature about Angelfield when Margaret first explores it?
(a) There is no roof.
(b) Two black cats dart in and out of her vision as she walks the grounds.
(c) There are beautiful stained glass windows.
(d) It is in perfect shape except for a few broken windows.

5. When Winter returns to the telling of her story, she talks of the village men asking for Dr. Maudsley's help with the twins. How does the doctor first attempt to solve the problem?
(a) He visits every day for two weeks and then gives up in failure.
(b) He diagnoses insanity and recommends that the twins be sent to an asylum.
(c) He, according to common practice of the time, uses leeches to try to clean their blood.
(d) He sends his wife to talk to the twin's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is peculiar about the way Margaret must read "The Thirteen Tales?'

2. What is one peculiar aspect of the twins?

3. How many different (untrue) versions of her life has Ms. Winter told to reporters and interviewers?

4. 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?

5. What missing bit of information in the "book pages" of the Banbury Herald disappoints Margaret?

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