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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What process does Margaret use to write the biography?
(a) She uses a small tape recorder; with this aid she can get nearly every conversation written down.
(b) She records every word of the interview, then goes back later to eliminate what is not important.
(c) She writes only key words in the interview, then immediately after elaborates with pencil and paper.
(d) She has brought along a small portable typewriter; this works fine as her room is not close to others.

2. What odd behavior does Isabelle's father display in the early days of Isabelle's life?
(a) He wanders the streets of the village at night, drunk.
(b) He becomes convinced people are stealing from him, so he becomes suspicious and miserly.
(c) He gallops horses up and down the moors, often in the moonlight.
(d) He refuses to come out of his room; he does not eat or sleep.

3. What is the proof Margaret sees to prove she was a twin?
(a) Margaret's parents finally tell her the truth, and show her legal documents.
(b) She answers the door and sees her twin standing there.
(c) She is sent a letter with a picture of her parents with both babies.
(d) She finds her sister's birth certificate and death certificate.

4. 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) John-the-dig.
(c) Emmeline.
(d) Hester.

5. What is the landscape like on the trip north to Vida Winter's house?
(a) After a drive through a scenic green countryside, Winters' lush flower gardens were a pleasant surprise.
(b) The moors; green rolling hills, quaint villages, remote wilderness.
(c) Icy winds and snow slowed her travel; Margaret was nearly frozen when she arrived the next morning.
(d) First a large city with urban sprawl, then finally to a old mansion in the countryside.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hester typically do after cleaning a room in Angelfield?

2. Why does Hester think she has seen a ghost?

3. What is the first question Margaret asks Vida WInter?

4. How many different (untrue) versions of her life has Ms. Winter told to reporters and interviewers?

5. When Vida Winter cries out a name, Margaret realizes that she and Winter have something in common. What is it?

Short Essay Questions

1. Relate the circumstances surrounding Isabelle's birth.

2. Describe the orientation of the Angelfield house.

3. Describe the contents of the letter which Margaret receives.

4. List a few specific details about Vida Winter's appearance on Margaret's first meeting.

5. What happens when Margaret arrives at Vida Winter's house for the first time?

6. List a few "odd" behaviors of the twins as they go about the countryside.

7. Describe Vida Winter's reaction to Margaret 's short leave of absence.

8. What information does Margaret find at the Banbury Herald? What information does she NOT find?

9. Describe Judith, the housekeeper.

10. How does Margaret learn that she was a twin? Describe what she is doing and how she makes the discovery.

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