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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.

What became of Hester? (from Part Four, Beginnings: Snow, Happy Birthday, The Thirteenth Tale, and Postscriptum,)

She changed her name and moved to Italy.

She moved to America and eventually married the doctor.

She apparently died not far from Angelfield so she could keep watch on the twins.

She died in poverty because she could never work again as a governess.

2.

Why is Angelfield scheduled for demolition? (from Part One, Beginnings: Dickens's Study, The Almanacs, In the Archives of the Banbury Herald, Ruins, The Friendly Giant, and Graves,)

A small airport is to be built on the site.

A golf course is to be built on the site.

A hotel is to be built on the site.

Kids like to play in the ruins, but the falling walls are dangerous.

3.

Hester talks in her diary of the joy of working closely with someone on what project? (from Part Two, Middles: Everybody Has a Story, December Days, Sisters, A Diary and a Train, Demolishing the Past, and Hester's Diary II,)

A book about Jane Eyre.

The renovation of Angelfield.

The study of twins.

A vegetable garden.

4.

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,)

A woman in white comes after her with a knife.

She hears a baby crying outside.

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

She hears someone scream her name.

5.

What does Margaret bring to Aurelius at Angelfield? (from Part Four, Beginnings: Snow, Happy Birthday, The Thirteenth Tale, and Postscriptum,)

Legal papers that identify Aurelius as a son of one of the twins.

The diary of Hester.

Pictures of his grandfather.

The casket of Emmeline's ashes.

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