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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. Instead of going home for Christmas, where does Margaret go instead?
(a) To London.
(b) To look for Hester.
(c) To see her mother.
(d) Angelfield.

2. With whom does Hester seems to be making some positive impact?
(a) Isabelle.
(b) Adeline.
(c) Charlie.
(d) Emmeline.

3. After meeting Emmeline and confronting Vida WInter about her sister, what does Margaret learn about Emmeline?
(a) Emmeline has not spoken in eighteen years.
(b) Emmeline is dying.
(c) Emmeline is mostly deaf and partly blind.
(d) Emmeline has been mentally ill, but she is getting better.

4. What is a perambulator?
(a) A heater which uses water.
(b) A constable ( police officer).
(c) A baby carriage, or stroller.
(d) An early kind of phonograph or music player.

5. The following adjectives best describe Charlie as a child:
(a) Smart, sullen, stubborn.
(b) Not-bright, sickly, kind.
(c) Athletic, handsome, mean.
(d) Neglected, violent, mean.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the doctor tell Margaret will heal her from her present illness?

2. What is significant about the name of the author, Vida Winter?

3. Where, and with whom, will Margaret eat her meals?

4. As a young teen, Emmeline liked to:

5. What news does Vida Winter's doctor give to Margaret?

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