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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the chapter title, "Box of Lives" refer to?
2. When Isabelle returns after being away for several months, she comes back with what or whom?
3. Hester has become quite well-read on what subject?
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?
5. How many different (untrue) versions of her life has Ms. Winter told to reporters and interviewers?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Margaret's reaction to reading Vida Winter's books.
2. What happens to Mrs. Maudsley when she arrives at Angelfield to check on the twins?
3. Describe the orientation of the Angelfield house.
4. List a few details that are used to describe Margaret's first impression of Vida Winter's house.
5. What makes Hester believe she is seeing a ghost?
6. How does Margaret learn that she was a twin? Describe what she is doing and how she makes the discovery.
7. When Margaret writes a card about Hester, what conclusion does she come to, and how does she act on this?
8. Describe the circumstances of the first meeting between Margaret and Aurelius.
9. At one point in their first conversation, Margaret is uncomfortable and gets up to leave. What words of Vida Winter bring her back?
10. Describe the contents of the letter which Margaret receives.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss how the elements of weather work to strengthen the plot and themes of this book. For example, there is much mystery and confusion in the plot at the same time the countryside is immersed in a thick fog. Identify these setting clues and show how they strengthen the plot.
Essay Topic 2
Many of the Angelfield children were mean, violent and cruel. What makes a child cruel? What can be done to help an "evil" child? Write an essay that examines one of the "cruel" children of Angelfield, describing the factors that led to his or her cruelty, and what might have prevented this cruelty.
Essay Topic 3
How is understanding family history helpful in understanding an individual? Winter says to Margaret that individuals are part of their family's story. Do you believe that an individual is so marked by his family or by the past events of a family that he or she is trapped by this background? Can a family so mark a person that he or she cannot change? Discuss this question as it relates either to Vida Winters or to Margaret Lea.
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