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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 ultimately happens to Ms. Winter's house?

2. After several days of suspicious quiet, who enters Charlie's room to investigate?

3. Who has Margaret arranged to meet at Angelfield this second time?

4. Who was Kitty?

5. What does Adeline find that Emmeline had been keeping?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Explain what Hester finds strange about Emmeline's use of pronouns.

4. What crucial part of Vida Winter's story does Margaret figure out which answers many of the unsolved pieces of the story's puzzle?

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

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

7. Describe how the fire started.

8. Describe how Vida Winter became Adeline.

9. Who takes care of the unnamed child?

10. Describe Aurelius's inheritance.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

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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