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

2. On Margaret's birthday, she goes :

3. In what condition is Charlie when Adeline finds him?

4. Typically, Margaret's childhood birthdays were marked by:

5. What does Margaret keep of Ms. Winter belongings?

Short Essay Questions

1. What makes John-the-dig decide he needs to check on Charlie?

2. Describe Aurelius's inheritance.

3. Describe how Vida Winter became Adeline.

4. How does Adeline begin to confuse people about which twin is which?

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

6. Describe the meeting between Aurelius and Emmeline.

7. In what state is Charlie's room when John-the-dig breaks down the door?

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

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

10. What does Margaret tell Aurelius, and what does he then ask of her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Aurelius is a character who is never content knowing he was abandoned by his own parent and adopted by a stranger. How does this affect the choices he makes? How does this affect his personality? Write about Aurelius as a character, paying particular attention to his desperate need for belonging.

Essay Topic 3

How believable are the "ghost sightings"? List at least four of the sightings and give the explanation for each. Should they have been included in this novel at all?

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