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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. 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?
(a) Her twin.
(b) Herself as a younger person.
(c) Her dead mother.
(d) Her father.

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

3. What does John -the-Dig do at Angelfield?
(a) He is the only person on the estate that can handle horses.
(b) He is the manager and book-keeper of the estate.
(c) He is the gardener, as his ancestors also had been.
(d) He is actually the great uncle of the twins.

4. What does Merrily often do while she is hanging clothes or doing housework?
(a) Asks the Angelfield twins to babysit.
(b) Chats with Isabelle Angelfield.
(c) Tells ghost stories that frighten the twins.
(d) Sets her baby outside in her yard.

5. The following is said about Vida Winter's appearance:
(a) She wears expensive rings and a jeweled tiara.
(b) She wears expensive, colorful rings but is otherwise clothed in black.
(c) She wears sunglasses, white makeup, red lipstick.
(d) She wears sunglasses, a bright pink scarf and white gloves.

Short Answer Questions

1. In their first interview, Winter reveals to Margaret a painful bit of her history earlier than she wanted to.

2. Vida Winter learned most of the family history by listening to whose stories?

3. When Vida Winter cries out a name, Margaret realizes that she and Winter have something in common. What is it?

4. In the first interview, Margaret asks for three bits of information. What is the response to this from Vida Winter?

5. What physical feature on Vida Winter is distinctive?

(see the answer key)

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