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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four, Beginnings: Snow, Happy Birthday, The Thirteenth Tale, and Postscriptum,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one source of income for the people left at Angelfield?
(a) People come to look at John-the-dig's topiary garden.
(b) The pear orchard on the property.
(c) Bottles of wine in their basement.
(d) The game in the park; hunters are willing to pay to hunt.

2. What process does Margaret use to write the biography?
(a) She has brought along a small portable typewriter; this works fine as her room is not close to others.
(b) She records every word of the interview, then goes back later to eliminate what is not important.
(c) She uses a small tape recorder; with this aid she can get nearly every conversation written down.
(d) She writes only key words in the interview, then immediately after elaborates with pencil and paper.

3. Vida Winter learned most of the family history by listening to whose stories?
(a) Her uncle, who wrote down the history.
(b) The stable boy who was like her old brother.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) The Missus, who was the main kitchen servant.

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

5. What is one peculiar aspect of the twins?
(a) They speak in their own language.
(b) One laughs constantly; the other cries constantly.
(c) The tear out their own hair.
(d) They are identical except for their hair color.

Short Answer Questions

1. After several weeks into the interview process, what sound does Margaret hear late at night?

2. In what way did the bookstore help in Margaret's education?

3. What is Margaret's opinion about Vida Winter's writing?

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 dies soon after the collapse of the roof at Angelfield?

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