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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. Margaret receives a letter from her solicitor about whom?

2. What does Margaret bring to Aurelius at Angelfield?

3. Which picture of Angelfield catches the attention of Vida Winter?

4. When Margaret finally tells Vida Winter about her own life, what does she show Winter?

5. What is distinctive about Emmeline's face, when Margaret meets her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Margaret hoping to find when she looks in Winter's collection of "Jane Eyre" books?

2. What lie does Adeline concoct about Charlie's whereabouts?

3. Describe Aurelius's inheritance.

4. Why does the Missus neglect to tell Charlie about Isabelle's death?

5. Why had Margaret's parents not told her about being a twin?

6. Who takes care of the unnamed child?

7. Karen shows a picture of her father to Margaret. What is he holding?

8. After finding Charlie, where does Adeline immediately go, and what does she do?

9. Hester thinks she has seen strange things in the mirror. How does she try to explain this?

10. Explain the relationship between Ambrose Proctor and the twins.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

"All children mythologize their birth." What does this quote by Vida Winter mean? How is this true for you or for others you have known? What myths were the characters in the story perpetuating and why?

Essay Topic 2

This novel takes on two time periods; the present and the past. In both, however, servants are far inferior to the owners of estates. Discuss this servant/master relationship as it is portrayed in the book. Does Setterfield remain neutral on the subject? In other words, does she merely present facts or does she write about this relationship in such a way to approve or disapprove of this kind of dominant/subservient relationship?

Essay Topic 3

In Dicken's Study, Vida Winter says she creates in order to fill a deep void within. Discuss Vida Winter as a creative person. Do you agree that her troubled past might have made her a better storyteller and novelist? What were her particular demons? What makes her likable as a character? Unlikeable?

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