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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aurelius Love bring to Margaret after she falls?
(a) A cup of tea and some cake.
(b) Bandages and crutches.
(c) A photograph.
(d) A golf cart so she would not have to walk on her sore foot.

2. As the twins grow, what disturbing pattern emerges regarding them in the village and surrounding houses?
(a) The twins walk into unlocked houses and take what they want.
(b) The twins talk of drowning their mother and poisoning the servants.
(c) The twins are caught running without clothes on through the middle of town.
(d) The twins begin to frighten smaller children with stories about ghosts.

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

4. In literature, what are examples of the "Rule of Three" which Vida Winter cites?
(a) Three drunken sailors, three Christmas hens.
(b) Three sides of a golden triangle, three crowns on three kings.
(c) Fisherman's three wishes, three Billy Goats Gruff.
(d) Three of the trinity, three of Satan.

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

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

7. In the beginning of the book, who has sent Margaret a surprising letter?
(a) The manager of Vida Winter's estate.
(b) Vida Winter, an author.
(c) Vida Winter's daughter.
(d) Margaret's twin, separated from Margaret for years.

8. Margaret receives a letter from her father with something enclosed. What is it?
(a) A necklace from her mother.
(b) An old picture of Isabelle and Charlie as young children.
(c) A letter from a lawyer.
(d) An artice about Vida Winter's disease.

9. What news does Vida Winter's doctor give to Margaret?
(a) He tells her Vida Winter is terminally ill.
(b) He tells Margaret that it would be wise to begin wearing gloves and a mask when she is near Winters.
(c) He advises her to go behind WInter's back and contact her twin.
(d) He tells her that Vida WInter has no more than one week to live.

10. The name of the house and estate where Vida Winter grew up (as Adeline) was called:
(a) Hanley Downs.
(b) Angelfield.
(c) Moorlands.
(d) Dangerfield.

11. What happens when the doctor tries to calm Hester after her "ghost sighting"?
(a) She only gets more upset and frightenend.
(b) He hugs her, and they kiss.
(c) He must give her a sedative, and she faints.
(d) She refuses his help, thinking he assumes she is weak.

12. How did Merrily get her name?
(a) Her name was Mary Leigh, and she laughed often.
(b) Her mother had a clear, contagious laugh.
(c) Her parents named her Merrily.
(d) When she was little, she sang the song called "Merrily, Happily, Longingly."

13. 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 died on the night that the twins were born, making WInter's story untrue.
(c) He was declared legally dead.
(d) His death was recent, only two years before she met Ms. Winter.

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

15. What is the first question Margaret asks Vida WInter?
(a) What happened to the (missing) thirteenth story in her first book.
(b) Whether Winter is terminally ill and fears death will end her life soon.
(c) An explanation about the rumor that her house is haunted.
(d) Her real name.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Winter's frankness and honesty create a strong first reaction in Margaret. Early in their first conversation, Margaret:

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. A woman in white used what to hurt a visitor to the Angelfield house?

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