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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, Middles: Hester Arrives, The Box of Lives, and The Eye in the Yew,.

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) Poison.
(d) A fireplace poker.

2. As the twins grow, what disturbing pattern emerges regarding them in the village and surrounding houses?
(a) The twins talk of drowning their mother and poisoning the servants.
(b) The twins are caught running without clothes on through the middle of town.
(c) The twins begin to frighten smaller children with stories about ghosts.
(d) The twins walk into unlocked houses and take what they want.

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

4. In what way did the bookstore help in Margaret's education?
(a) She first learned her alphabet because the books were in alphabetical order.
(b) Margaret's favorite teachers came in and spent extra hours tutoring her.
(c) The fascinating people that entered the store taught her about the world.
(d) Margaret's mother read to her for hours as they worked in the shop.

5. What does the chapter title, "Box of Lives" refer to?
(a) Margaret finds an old box near the ruins of the old church.
(b) Winter keeps many items from her past in a safe in her bedroom; she finally shows the box to Margaret.
(c) Vida Winter says she keeps "opening up the box" to reveal the secrets of her past.
(d) Margaret keeps a 3x5 card on many people, and she keepst these cards in a box.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. Where does Margaret begin her research to verify the three parts of Ms. Winter's story?

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

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