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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the disturbing event that take place between the two twins after Hester has left?
(a) It is implied that Charlie, their uncle, sexually abuses them.
(b) Emmeline attacks and harms Adeline.
(c) Adeline attacks and harms Emmeline.
(d) The girls become physically attracted to the same young man.

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

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

4. Is the report of the Angelfield fire confirmed by the Banbury Herald newspaper?
(a) Apparently not. There was no mention of a fire at Anglefield.
(b) Yes.
(c) Perhaps. There was a fire, but not in the year Winter had reported.
(d) The fire was only in the barn, not in the main house.

5. When she learns the truth about being a twin, Margaret feels:
(a) Enlightened. She now understands her lifelong feeling of loneliness.
(b) Angry. She is furious that her parents had not told her the truth previously.
(c) Elated. She is happy that she has a sister and is eager to meet her.
(d) Curious. She wants to learn more, and becomes intent on researching missing information.

6. When the doctor comes to Angelfield, he recommends what?
(a) That Isabelle be sent to an asylum.
(b) That the meals must change as their diets were insufficient.
(c) That the entire house be closed down as uninhabitable.
(d) That her children be removed from her.

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

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

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

10. Charlie, Isabelle's brother, is:
(a) Her twin.
(b) Older than Isabelle, by nine years.
(c) Older than Isabelle, by only two years.
(d) Actually a step brother, and is older by twelve years.

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

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

13. What is one distinctive feature about Angelfield when Margaret first explores it?
(a) There is no roof.
(b) There are beautiful stained glass windows.
(c) Two black cats dart in and out of her vision as she walks the grounds.
(d) It is in perfect shape except for a few broken windows.

14. 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) Emmeline.
(b) Arurelius Love.
(c) Hester.
(d) John-the-dig.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Vida Winter is a prolific and well-known author. Besides her fame, what can be said about her physical appearance?

3. In literature, what are examples of the "Rule of Three" which Vida Winter cites?

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

5. What is Margaret's opinion about Vida Winter's writing?

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