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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, Middles: Everybody Has a Story, December Days, Sisters, A Diary and a Train, Demolishing the Past, and Hester's Diary II,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Despite their fighting, Emmeline gives Adeline :
(a) Her diary.
(b) Promise that she would never marry so as to not separate the twins.
(c) A copy of Jane Eyre.
(d) A green emerald ring.

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

3. What do the children do that make John-the-Dig and Missus sad?
(a) They bully younger children.
(b) They destroy years of work in John-the-Digs's topiary garden.
(c) They cut each other's hair, destroying their beautiful appearance.
(d) They destroy an entire apple tree right as it bloomed.

4. Where, and with whom, will Margaret eat her meals?
(a) Always in the large dining room with Winter.
(b) With Winter and her extended family in the large and noisy kitchen.
(c) Sometimes alone and sometimes in the kitchen with the children.
(d) Alone, in her bedroom.

5. At what age does Margaret discover she was a twin, and that this twin died at birth?
(a) Five.
(b) As an adult, as she is narrating this book.
(c) Fourteen.
(d) Ten.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What odd behavior does Isabelle's father display in the early days of Isabelle's life?

3. What clue makes John-the-Dig know that something is amiss with Charlie?

4. When Winter returns to the telling of her story, she talks of the village men asking for Dr. Maudsley's help with the twins. How does the doctor first attempt to solve the problem?

5. Who else participates in the"experiment" of Hester and the doctor?

(see the answer key)

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