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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After several days of interviewing Vida Winter, Margaret decides she must leave for a few days. Why?
(a) She wants to verify the three facts told to her by Vida Winter.
(b) She is homesick and wants to visit her family and friends.
(c) She is concerned about her sick mother.
(d) She needs to ask her father his advice about the writing of the book.

2. What does John -the-Dig do at Angelfield?
(a) He is actually the great uncle of the twins.
(b) He is the gardener, as his ancestors also had been.
(c) He is the manager and book-keeper of the estate.
(d) He is the only person on the estate that can handle horses.

3. Describe the abrupt change in the way Isabelle's father treats her.
(a) He hires extra help to make sure she is well cared for and entertained.
(b) He loves her at first, but after a few months begins to disdain her and hate her presence.
(c) He becomes a doting father to the baby; singing lullabyes and reading stories.
(d) He leaves suddenly, leaving her in the care of the gardener and cook.

4. Vida Winter says she starts one book as soon as she finishes another because she is afraid to confront which person who keeps trying to get her attention?
(a) Her dead mother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her twin.
(d) Herself as a younger person.

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

6. Where does the first meeting between Margaret Lea and Vida Winter take place?
(a) In the kitchen.
(b) On the moors, outside the house.
(c) In the hallway outside Margaret's bedroom, late at night.
(d) In Winter's library.

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

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

9. Where does Margaret begin her research to verify the three parts of Ms. Winter's story?
(a) At Angelfield.
(b) At home, in her own bookshop.
(c) In the Governmental Records Building.
(d) In London, at the National Library.

10. On her first night at Vida Winter's house, Margaret looks out into the night before going to bed. What does she see?
(a) A faint, mysterious light moving along the moor.
(b) A night lit with bright stars.
(c) Her reflection in the window.
(d) Total and complete darkness.

11. In their first interview, Winter reveals to Margaret a painful bit of her history earlier than she wanted to.
(a) At age 16, she experienced a massive fire.
(b) She had a child out of wedlock who died at age three.
(c) Her father was mentally ill and commited suicide.
(d) She had eloped with a disreputable man; he left her after only seven months of marriage.

12. The following is said about Vida Winter's appearance:
(a) She wears sunglasses, white makeup, red lipstick.
(b) She wears expensive rings and a jeweled tiara.
(c) She wears expensive, colorful rings but is otherwise clothed in black.
(d) She wears sunglasses, a bright pink scarf and white gloves.

13. Margaret says, "the hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours." What does she do during these hours?
(a) She reads through numerous books.
(b) She finds contentment and pride as she writes her stories.
(c) She enjoys the company of her friends in small tea shops around London.
(d) She has conversations with her mother and aunt which are always interesting and often humorous.

14. What physical feature on Vida Winter is distinctive?
(a) Her hand is badly scarred from fire; a mark like a Q was also embedded in the scar.
(b) Her left arm has three burn marks; a cross-like symbol marks her, not unlike a brand.
(c) Her hair is a deep black except for thick streaks of silver and white.
(d) She walks with a pronounced limp; one leg is signicantly shorter than the other.

15. A woman in white used what to hurt a visitor to the Angelfield house?
(a) Poison.
(b) The cords of the heavy curtains.
(c) A violin.
(d) A fireplace poker.

Short Answer Questions

1. When she learns the truth about being a twin, Margaret feels:

2. Hester 's and the doctor's actions result in what consequences?

3. What is the disturbing event that take place between the two twins after Hester has left?

4. Charlie, Isabelle's brother, is:

5. When Ms. Winter is in pain, what is the metaphor she uses to describe this pain?

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