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The Thirteenth Tale Quiz

Diane Setterfield

This Study Guide consists of approximately 56 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Thirteenth Tale.

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

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Part One, Beginnings: The Letter, Margaret's Story, and Thirteen Tales

Part One, Beginnings: Arrival and Meeting Miss Winter

Part One, Beginnings: And So We Began... and Gardens

Part One, Beginnings: Merrily and the Perambulator and Dr. and Mrs. Maudsley

Part One, Beginnings: Dickens's Study, The Almanacs, In the Archives of the Banbury Herald, Ruins, The Friendly Giant, and Graves,

Part Two, Middles: Hester Arrives, The Box of Lives, and The Eye in the Yew,

Part Two, Middles: Five Notes, The Experiment, Do You Believe in Ghosts?, and After Hester,

Part Two, Middles: Gone! and After Charlie,

Part Two, Middles: Angelfield Again, Mrs. Love Turns a Heel, The Inheritance, Jane Eyre and the Furnace, and Collapse,

Part Two, Middles: The Silver Garden, Phonetic Alphabet, The Ladder, Eternal Twilight, and Fossilized Tears,

Part Two, Middles: Underwater Cryptography, Hair, Rain and Cake, and Reunion,

Part Two, Middles: Everybody Has a Story, December Days, Sisters, A Diary and a Train, Demolishing the Past, and Hester's Diary II,

Part Three, Endings: The Ghost in the Tale, Bones, Baby, and Fire,

Part Four, Beginnings: Snow, Happy Birthday, The Thirteenth Tale, and Postscriptum,

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Diane Setterfield

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Who or what startles Margaret in the ruins of the Angelfield house on her first day of exploration? (from Part One, Beginnings: Dickens's Study, The Almanacs, In the Archives of the Banbury Herald, Ruins, The Friendly Giant, and Graves,)

The sound of a violin.

The flapping wings of birds.

A woman in white; Margaret calls to her, but the woman does not turn.

Herself, in a mirror.

2.

With whom does Hester seems to be making some positive impact? (from Part Two, Middles: Hester Arrives, The Box of Lives, and The Eye in the Yew,)

Charlie.

Emmeline.

Isabelle.

Adeline.

3.

What causes Margaret to run out of Angelfield on her first visit there? (from Part One, Beginnings: Dickens's Study, The Almanacs, In the Archives of the Banbury Herald, Ruins, The Friendly Giant, and Graves,)

She hears a baby crying outside.

The doorknob she is holding begins to turn from the other side.

A woman in white comes after her with a knife.

She hears someone scream her name.

4.

What do Hester and John-the-dig argue about? (from Part Two, Middles: Hester Arrives, The Box of Lives, and The Eye in the Yew,)

His strange habit of humming as he strolls the grounds after midnight.

His insistence that Isabelle should return to Angelfield.

A mysterious child who is seen on the property.

His refusal to lock the gate.

5.

After her writing is complete and the household chores are finished, Margaret finally: (from Part Four, Beginnings: Snow, Happy Birthday, The Thirteenth Tale, and Postscriptum,)

Begins to listen to the tape recordings of her interviews.

Remembers the details that helped her find Hester.

Is able to call home and talk to her father.

Goes to the garden and cries for the deaths in her life.

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