This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, Middles: The Silver Garden, Phonetic Alphabet, The Ladder, Eternal Twilight, and Fossilized Tears,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the disturbing event that take place between the two twins after Hester has left?
(a) The girls become physically attracted to the same young man.
(b) Emmeline attacks and harms Adeline.
(c) It is implied that Charlie, their uncle, sexually abuses them.
(d) Adeline attacks and harms Emmeline.

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. Who or what startles Margaret in the ruins of the Angelfield house on her first day of exploration?
(a) The sound of a violin.
(b) Herself, in a mirror.
(c) The flapping wings of birds.
(d) A woman in white; Margaret calls to her, but the woman does not turn.

4. Vida Winter is reluctant to let Margaret leave for a few days. Why?
(a) Winter and Margaret have become friends; she wants her companionship.
(b) WInter is afraid that Margaret will tell the outside world her story before it is concluded.
(c) Winter is afraid that Margraet will contact her twin sister Emmeline.
(d) Winter is terminally ill and wants to complete the telling of her story before she dies.

5. What is peculiar about the many interviews given by Vida Winter?
(a) She finds it fun to make every reporter cry.
(b) She has never told the truth about her life.
(c) She will never speak for more than thirty minutes.
(d) She prides herself on her honesty, despite her painful past.