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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 happens to Roland, Isabelle's husband?
(a) He is called to military service and dies on the battlefield.
(b) He leaves for America, promising Isabelle he would send for her.
(c) He dies of pneunomia.
(d) He leaves Isabelle for another woman soon after their marriage.

2. What is surprising about the appearance of the letter for Margaret?
(a) It is handwritten by a person who is either a child or an invalid.
(b) The type is faint and barely recognizable.
(c) Each line is in a new color of ink.
(d) Margaret's name is mispelled, and there is no return address.

3. Vida Winter is a prolific and well-known author. Besides her fame, what can be said about her physical appearance?
(a) Her hair is long, often braided, and nearly black.
(b) Her body is shriveled with arthritis; she is severely stooped.
(c) She is surprisingly tall, lean, and fit for a woman of age 75.
(d) She is old, but very beautiful.

4. What pain does Margaret occasionally feel, especially at night?
(a) Headaches.
(b) A pain in her side.
(c) A burning sensation on her scars, left over from a fire.
(d) Cramps in her hand, from writing so much.

5. The name of the house and estate where Vida Winter grew up (as Adeline) was called:
(a) Dangerfield.
(b) Moorlands.
(c) Hanley Downs.
(d) Angelfield.

Short Answer Questions

1. A woman in white used what to hurt a visitor to the Angelfield house?

2. What do Hester and John-the-dig argue about?

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

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

5. What is one overwhelming first impression of Vida Winter's house?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. List a few details that are used to describe Margaret's first impression of Vida Winter's house.

3. List several details of Angelfield when Mrs. Maudsley first enters.

4. Describe the incident of the baby and perambulator.

5. Contrast the difference in the way George Angelfield treats his two children.

6. What makes Hester believe she is seeing a ghost?

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

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

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

10. Give three adjectives that describe Hester.

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