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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What missing bit of information in the "book pages" of the Banbury Herald disappoints Margaret?
(a) There was no mention of twin girls in any of the accounts.
(b) Angelfield servants were mentioned, but not John-the-dig.
(c) There had been no interview with a man pleading for the truth from Winter.
(d) The date of Vida Winter's birth was missing.

2. What is one overwhelming first impression of Vida Winter's house?
(a) It is entirely silent.
(b) The laughter of children.
(c) The fragrance of lilacs.
(d) An odd odor that reminds Margaret of a funeral home.

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

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

5. In the first interview, Margaret asks for three bits of information. What is the response to this from Vida Winter?
(a) She refuses, and threatens to find another author.
(b) She refuses to answer Margaret, saying she (Ms. Winter) will tell the story on her terms.
(c) She gives many examples from stories about the importance of three.
(d) She laughs, saying that five is a better number.

6. Why does Hester think she has seen a ghost?
(a) She sees lights on the moors and the faint shape of a woman on horseback.
(b) She sees the twins together, even though they are physically in two different places.
(c) She sees a woman in white three different times in the garden.
(d) She hears singing coming from the library. When she enters, there is no one there, but the locked door is open.

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

8. Who is Mr. Lomax?
(a) The family solicitor, or attorney.
(b) A relative of Hester's.
(c) A newpaper publisher.
(d) A friend of Charlie's, the only one Charlie will speak with.

9. Why does the roof at Angelfield get worse soon after Hester leaves?
(a) Adeline climbs to the roof, takes a hatchet, and makes holes.
(b) The repairmen opens a hole when he begins repairs. He doesn't finish the work.
(c) Hester has ordered the repairs to stop.
(d) The chimney in the kitchen has a small fire.

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

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

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

13. Margaret says of herself, "gradually, my reading became less random." What becomes the primary interest, or focus, of her reading?
(a) The lives and memoirs of obscure writers.
(b) Families torn apart by war and violence.
(c) Historical fiction, especially from the thirteen century.
(d) Legends and superstitions centered on the number thirteen.

14. What causes Margaret to run out of Angelfield on her first visit there?
(a) She hears someone scream her name.
(b) She hears a baby crying outside.
(c) The doorknob she is holding begins to turn from the other side.
(d) A woman in white comes after her with a knife.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Roland, Isabelle's husband?

2. How many different (untrue) versions of her life has Ms. Winter told to reporters and interviewers?

3. When she has trouble falling asleep the night after receiving the letter, what does Margaret do?

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

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

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