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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Margaret returns to Winter's house after her second visit to Angelfield, what wakes Margaret in the middle of the night?
(a) The light, after days of darkness; however, it is only bright moonlight.
(b) The sounds of a violin.
(c) The doctor's arrival.
(d) Howling winds: a storm seems close and dangerous

2. Who was Kitty?
(a) The cat that was tormented by Adline and Emmeline.
(b) Aurelius' first wife.
(c) Mrs. Love.
(d) Mrs. Loves' sister.

3. Who is Aurelius' half-sister?
(a) Emmeline.
(b) The missus' niece.
(c) Isabelle.
(d) Karen.

4. After her writing is complete and the household chores are finished, Margaret finally:
(a) Is able to call home and talk to her father.
(b) Goes to the garden and cries for the deaths in her life.
(c) Begins to listen to the tape recordings of her interviews.
(d) Remembers the details that helped her find Hester.

5. Hester is troubled about a boy in the garden. Why?
(a) She is worried that he is flirting with the twins.
(b) She thinks he should be in school.
(c) She thinks he is stealing food.
(d) She thinks he might be John-the-dig's son.

6. What is troubling to Margaret as she visits Angelfield a second time?
(a) She thinks she senses someone in the fog that surrounds her.
(b) She hears violin playing in the dark.
(c) She is wondering if she will meet Aurelius and fall in love.
(d) She keeps wishing she could meet her twin.

7. Instead of going home for Christmas, where does Margaret go instead?
(a) To see her mother.
(b) Angelfield.
(c) To look for Hester.
(d) To London.

8. Margaret receives a letter from her solicitor about whom?
(a) Isabelle.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Hester.

9. What color is the tent that Margaret sees at Angelfield?
(a) Red and white striped, like a circus tent.
(b) White.
(c) Khaki, or tan.
(d) Orange, similar to caution tape.

10. Who dies soon after the collapse of the roof at Angelfield?
(a) The Missus.
(b) Emmeline.
(c) Hester.
(d) Dr. Maudsley.

11. What ultimately happens to Ms. Winter's house?
(a) Like Angelfield, it too burned.
(b) Margaret is able to buy it with the money she makes from the book.
(c) It is demolished so a golf course could be built on the moors.
(d) It is opened as a museum for tourists.

12. Within moments of Margaret's return to the Winter house, what does Margaret say to Emmeline ?
(a) "Tell me the truth about Aurelius."
(b) "I know you burned Angelfield."
(c) "Please find my sister."
(d) "Why did you abandon your child?"

13. What is painful to Aurelius about the story he tells to Margaret?
(a) He realizes he was related to Isabelle and suffers from the same disease.
(b) He realizes that Mrs. Love never really loved him.
(c) He realizes that he was abandonned by his parents.
(d) He realizes that he was the cause of a murder.

14. What clue makes John-the-Dig know that something is amiss with Charlie?
(a) The sounds of smashing windows and boards.
(b) The clean dishes carried to Charlie's room are not replaced with dirty ones.
(c) Charlie only plays violin when his insanity is at its worst.
(d) Charlie's dogs were howling and barking throughout the night.

15. In addition to the filth and squalor or of Charlie's room, what is most surprising about Charlie's room?
(a) Isabelle is found hiding in the corner.
(b) Charlie is not there.
(c) There are piles of letters that apologize to his family.
(d) Charlie has carefully set aside valuable presents for the girls.

Short Answer Questions

1. What became of Hester?

2. What does Vida Winter give to Margaret as she is leaving?

3. Which two characters meet after many years in private rooms at Winter's house?

4. What incredible revelation does Margaret realize about the children at Angelfield?

5. Who does John-the-Dig teach about trimming the topiary garden?

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