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. Who does John-the-Dig teach about trimming the topiary garden?
(a) Both twins.
(b) The new boy, Proctor.
(c) Adeline.
(d) His nephew.

2. When she learns the truth about being a twin, Margaret feels:
(a) Curious. She wants to learn more, and becomes intent on researching missing information.
(b) Elated. She is happy that she has a sister and is eager to meet her.
(c) Enlightened. She now understands her lifelong feeling of loneliness.
(d) Angry. She is furious that her parents had not told her the truth previously.

3. Margaret says of herself, "gradually, my reading became less random." What becomes the primary interest, or focus, of her reading?
(a) Historical fiction, especially from the thirteen century.
(b) Families torn apart by war and violence.
(c) The lives and memoirs of obscure writers.
(d) Legends and superstitions centered on the number thirteen.

4. 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 walk into unlocked houses and take what they want.
(c) The twins are caught running without clothes on through the middle of town.
(d) The twins begin to frighten smaller children with stories about ghosts.

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