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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hester help the Missus?
(a) She gives her the money needed to pay for her sister's funeral.
(b) She brings the Missus's sister to visit.
(c) She helps improve the Missus's eyesight.
(d) She takes over all the cooking.

2. What is the landscape like on the trip north to Vida Winter's house?
(a) After a drive through a scenic green countryside, Winters' lush flower gardens were a pleasant surprise.
(b) The moors; green rolling hills, quaint villages, remote wilderness.
(c) First a large city with urban sprawl, then finally to a old mansion in the countryside.
(d) Icy winds and snow slowed her travel; Margaret was nearly frozen when she arrived the next morning.

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

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

5. The following can be said about the bookshop:
(a) All of the answers are true.
(b) Most of the store's income is gained through rare book transactions.
(c) Students come to sell and resell textbooks.
(d) There are seven rooms of used books.

6. As Margaret settles into her bedroom on her first night in Vida Winter's house, she rearranges which aspect of the bedroom?
(a) The canopy bed frightens her because she cannot see into the room, so she removes the curtain.
(b) A picture on the wall troubles her, so she turns it around to face the wall.
(c) She takes down the heavy curtains from the windows.
(d) She moves the heavy chair nearer to the fireplace in order to stay warm.

7. Who is Hester?
(a) The children's new governess.
(b) A neighbor who becomes the twin's friend.
(c) The deacon's wife, sent to help the twins.
(d) Charlie's new wife.

8. What odd behavior does Isabelle's father display in the early days of Isabelle's life?
(a) He gallops horses up and down the moors, often in the moonlight.
(b) He refuses to come out of his room; he does not eat or sleep.
(c) He wanders the streets of the village at night, drunk.
(d) He becomes convinced people are stealing from him, so he becomes suspicious and miserly.

9. Winter's frankness and honesty create a strong first reaction in Margaret. Early in their first conversation, Margaret:
(a) Begins crying with strong sadness at the first story she is told.
(b) Is shocked by the sordid details of Winter's immoral past.
(c) Becomes angry at the way Winter treats her housekeeper, Judith.
(d) Rises from her chair, and nearly exits the room.

10. What peculiar record does Margaret find in an almanac about Charlie Angelfield?
(a) He wrote a newspaper article about the hauntings of ghosts at Angelfield.
(b) He was declared legally dead.
(c) His death was recent, only two years before she met Ms. Winter.
(d) He died on the night that the twins were born, making WInter's story untrue.

11. What does the chapter title, "Box of Lives" refer to?
(a) Winter keeps many items from her past in a safe in her bedroom; she finally shows the box to Margaret.
(b) Margaret keeps a 3x5 card on many people, and she keepst these cards in a box.
(c) Margaret finds an old box near the ruins of the old church.
(d) Vida Winter says she keeps "opening up the box" to reveal the secrets of her past.

12. What do Hester and John-the-dig argue about?
(a) A mysterious child who is seen on the property.
(b) His insistence that Isabelle should return to Angelfield.
(c) His refusal to lock the gate.
(d) His strange habit of humming as he strolls the grounds after midnight.

13. What is Margaret's opinion about Vida Winter's writing?
(a) She loves it, and spends days doing nothing else but reading Winter's books.
(b) She likes the writing, but has no interest in meeting WInter.
(c) She is frustrated by the happy endings and predictable plots.
(d) She is surprised that Winter seems to have stolen one on Margaret's stories.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Margaret insists that she must leave for how many days?

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

3. Who or what startles Margaret in the ruins of the Angelfield house on her first day of exploration?

4. When the doctor comes to Angelfield, he recommends what?

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

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