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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hester do first when she arrives?
(a) Hires three new servants.
(b) Claims she would stay only until a replacement could be found.
(c) Cleans the house.
(d) Buys new drapes and furniture.

2. After several weeks into the interview process, what sound does Margaret hear late at night?
(a) Someone singing long, erratic, notes of music.
(b) A child crying.
(c) Someone calling her name.
(d) Wolves howling on the moors.

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

4. What is surprising about the appearance of the letter for Margaret?
(a) It is handwritten by a person who is either a child or an invalid.
(b) The type is faint and barely recognizable.
(c) Margaret's name is mispelled, and there is no return address.
(d) Each line is in a new color of ink.

5. Who meets Margaret at the door of Miss Winter's house?
(a) A young child who holds a large black dog on a leash.
(b) Judith, the housekeeper.
(c) A cranky, impolite butler named Jansen.
(d) Miss Winter, herself.

6. What pain does Margaret occasionally feel, especially at night?
(a) A pain in her side.
(b) Cramps in her hand, from writing so much.
(c) Headaches.
(d) A burning sensation on her scars, left over from a fire.

7. When Isabelle returns after being away for several months, she comes back with what or whom?
(a) An emerald ring that her father suspected was stolen.
(b) A handsome husband.
(c) Her father's money from a bank in London.
(d) Two packages, which are two babies.

8. When she has trouble falling asleep the night after receiving the letter, what does Margaret do?
(a) She wakes up her mother and makes her talk about her twin.
(b) She decides to try one of the "dark spells" she has read about earlier in the day.
(c) She reads everything she can about twins.
(d) She takes a rare book from the shop and begins to read it.

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

10. When Vida Winter cries out a name, Margaret realizes that she and Winter have something in common. What is it?
(a) Neither had a happy childhood because of an emotionless mother.
(b) They both grieve the loss of a twin.
(c) They have both studied spells of "dark arts" from the 13th century.
(d) They are related; both share a common ancestor.

11. 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) The separation of Angeline and Emmeline.
(d) Isolation and starvation as treatment for mental ilness.

12. 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) Vida Winter says she keeps "opening up the box" to reveal the secrets of her past.
(c) Winter keeps many items from her past in a safe in her bedroom; she finally shows the box to Margaret.
(d) Margaret finds an old box near the ruins of the old church.

13. What does Margaret do when she hears a mysterious sound late at night?
(a) Confronts Ms. Winter and asks for the truth.
(b) Goes to stay with Aurelius, her only friend.
(c) Walks out into the garden to investigate.
(d) Wakes up John-the-dig, and tells him to bring his gun.

14. 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 gallops horses up and down the moors, often in the moonlight.
(c) He refuses to come out of his room; he does not eat or sleep.
(d) He wanders the streets of the village at night, drunk.

15. When Ms. Winter is in pain, what is the metaphor she uses to describe this pain?
(a) A wolf.
(b) A curtain that suffocates her.
(c) A storm with brutal winds.
(d) A tiger.

Short Answer Questions

1. After several days of interviewing Vida Winter, Margaret decides she must leave for a few days. Why?

2. 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?

3. Margaret says of herself, "gradually, my reading became less random." What becomes the primary interest, or focus, of her reading?

4. What is tragic about the birth of Isabelle, the twins' mother?

5. As Margaret settles into her bedroom on her first night in Vida Winter's house, she rearranges which aspect of the bedroom?

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