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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. How did Merrily get her name?
(a) Her parents named her Merrily.
(b) Her name was Mary Leigh, and she laughed often.
(c) When she was little, she sang the song called "Merrily, Happily, Longingly."
(d) Her mother had a clear, contagious laugh.

2. What does Merrily often do while she is hanging clothes or doing housework?
(a) Sets her baby outside in her yard.
(b) Tells ghost stories that frighten the twins.
(c) Asks the Angelfield twins to babysit.
(d) Chats with Isabelle Angelfield.

3. The following can be said about the bookshop:
(a) All of the answers are true.
(b) Most of the store's income is gained through rare book transactions.
(c) Students come to sell and resell textbooks.
(d) There are seven rooms of used books.

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

5. Where does Hester's lengthy conversation about the twins take place?
(a) In the library.
(b) In the topiary garden.
(c) In the twin's playroom.
(d) On a boat, so that twins can not hear.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way did the bookstore help in Margaret's education?

2. What is Margaret's least favorite month?

3. Vida Winter is reluctant to let Margaret leave for a few days. Why?

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

5. Who is Hester?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Relate the circumstances surrounding Isabelle's birth.

3. What happens to Mrs. Maudsley when she arrives at Angelfield to check on the twins?

4. At one point in their first conversation, Margaret is uncomfortable and gets up to leave. What words of Vida Winter bring her back?

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

6. Give two details of the scenery Margaret describes on her way to meet Vida Winter.

7. When Margaret writes a card about Hester, what conclusion does she come to, and how does she act on this?

8. Who raises the twins?

9. Describe what Margaret hears in the night soon after she arrives at the Winter house, and what she does when she hears this sound.

10. How are the twins becoming different from each other under Hester's guidance?

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