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

2. What does Margaret do when she hears a mysterious sound late at night?
(a) Walks out into the garden to investigate.
(b) Goes to stay with Aurelius, her only friend.
(c) Confronts Ms. Winter and asks for the truth.
(d) Wakes up John-the-dig, and tells him to bring his gun.

3. When she has trouble falling asleep the night after receiving the letter, what does Margaret do?
(a) She decides to try one of the "dark spells" she has read about earlier in the day.
(b) She wakes up her mother and makes her talk about her twin.
(c) She reads everything she can about twins.
(d) She takes a rare book from the shop and begins to read it.

4. Vida Winter is a prolific and well-known author. Besides her fame, what can be said about her physical appearance?
(a) Her body is shriveled with arthritis; she is severely stooped.
(b) She is surprisingly tall, lean, and fit for a woman of age 75.
(c) She is old, but very beautiful.
(d) Her hair is long, often braided, and nearly black.

5. What experiment (for research's sake) do Hester and the doctor carry out?
(a) Using bribery to entice Charlie to leave Angelfield.
(b) Shock treament for mental illness.
(c) The separation of Angeline and Emmeline.
(d) Isolation and starvation as treatment for mental ilness.