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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On Margaret's birthday, she goes :
(a) To the moors, in the rain.
(b) On a boat ride on the lake.
(c) To Angelfield, for dinner with Aurelius.
(d) Back home, for a reunion with her parents.

2. As a child, whose name did Margaret write often in the phonetic alphabet?
(a) Her own name.
(b) The names of her favorite authors.
(c) The name of her twin.
(d) Jane Eyre.

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

4. What does Margaret bring to Aurelius at Angelfield?
(a) Pictures of his grandfather.
(b) Legal papers that identify Aurelius as a son of one of the twins.
(c) The diary of Hester.
(d) The casket of Emmeline's ashes.

5. How does Margaret help Vida Winter after the telling of these painful memories?
(a) She helps her decide to find a new doctor.
(b) She finds Hester.
(c) She holds her and comforts her in the pain of the memory.
(d) She sings to her when her physical pain is severe.

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

7. What does Adeline find that Emmeline had been keeping?
(a) A diary.
(b) A book from the first owner of Angelfield.
(c) A mysterious box with the initials IAR carved in wood.
(d) A letter from Isabelle.

8. What are the words that come to Margaret as she struggles to understand them?
(a) "Angelfield should burn."
(b) "The dead go underground."
(c) "I am afraid of my sister."
(d) "I killed John-the-dig."

9. After Hester leaves and Isabelle dies, what can be said about the Missus?
(a) She has gradually become forgetful and unable to perform simple household tasks.
(b) John-the-dig agrees to marry her after many years of working together.
(c) She has left in search of Isabelle and Charlie.
(d) After Isabelle's death, she went into her room and wept uncontrollably for many nights in a row.

10. What change begins to occur in schedule of interviews between Margaret and Winter?
(a) Each story telling session becomes shorter.
(b) Each story telling session becomes longer.
(c) The women meet no longer at regular times; the interviews occur day and night at sporadic times.
(d) Now the doctor is always present.

11. As a young teen, Emmeline liked to:
(a) Take baths and play cards.
(b) Practice dancing in front of a mirror.
(c) Collect eggs from the chickens.
(d) Go for boat rides on the lake of the estate.

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

13. What has happened moments before Margaret's return to Vida Winter's house?
(a) Judith has announced that she is leaving.
(b) Three people believe they have seen the ghost.
(c) Emmeline has died.
(d) The violinist has been discovered.

14. In Aurelius' "inheritance," there is a page from what book?
(a) Marcus Aurelius.
(b) Great Expectations.
(c) Jane Eyre.
(d) The Bible.

15. Hester talks in her diary of the joy of working closely with someone on what project?
(a) The renovation of Angelfield.
(b) A vegetable garden.
(c) A book about Jane Eyre.
(d) The study of twins.

Short Answer Questions

1. What clue makes John-the-Dig know that something is amiss with Charlie?

2. Who set the fire at Angelfield?

3. Why doesn't the doctor come as soon as Emmeline has died?

4. Why does Margaret use the phonetic alphabet after her night in the garden?

5. What does Margaret tell Aurelius?

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