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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Margaret realizes that this person may still be alive and could answer many questions about the twins' childhood. She writes a letter asking an investigator to find whom?
(a) Arurelius Love.
(b) Emmeline.
(c) John-the-dig.
(d) Hester.

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

3. The following adjectives best describe Charlie as a child:
(a) Neglected, violent, mean.
(b) Athletic, handsome, mean.
(c) Not-bright, sickly, kind.
(d) Smart, sullen, stubborn.

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

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

6. In what way did the bookstore help in Margaret's education?
(a) Margaret's favorite teachers came in and spent extra hours tutoring her.
(b) The fascinating people that entered the store taught her about the world.
(c) Margaret's mother read to her for hours as they worked in the shop.
(d) She first learned her alphabet because the books were in alphabetical order.

7. What kind of writing of Margaret's has been published?
(a) Short novels, always wth thirteen chapters.
(b) Essays about royalty in the thirteenth century.
(c) Essays about the lives of authors.
(d) Non-fiction accounts of collectors, especially book and watch collectors.

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

9. 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) Herself as a younger person.
(d) Her twin.

10. Who else participates in the"experiment" of Hester and the doctor?
(a) John-the-dig.
(b) The doctor's wife.
(c) Isabelle.
(d) Hester's friend, Samuel.

11. 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 has conversations with her mother and aunt which are always interesting and often humorous.
(b) She finds contentment and pride as she writes her stories.
(c) She reads through numerous books.
(d) She enjoys the company of her friends in small tea shops around London.

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

13. Who or what startles Margaret in the ruins of the Angelfield house on her first day of exploration?
(a) The sound of a violin.
(b) The flapping wings of birds.
(c) Herself, in a mirror.
(d) A woman in white; Margaret calls to her, but the woman does not turn.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Describe the abrupt change in the way Isabelle's father treats her.

2. What is the landscape like on the trip north to Vida Winter's house?

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

4. When Isabelle returns after being away for several months, she comes back with what or whom?

5. Vida Winter learned most of the family history by listening to whose stories?

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