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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Miranda only takes the chance to do what with her favorite kite in Chapter 4?
(a) Look at it in the light.
(b) Fly it.
(c) Hang it up.
(d) Talk to it.

2. Miranda has to unlock the attic by using what in Chapter 4?
(a) Dr. Mead's key.
(b) A credit card.
(c) Wysteria's key.
(d) Hairpin and file.

3. What is the name of Miranda's favorite kite in Chapter 4?
(a) Black Hawk.
(b) Blue Rocket.
(c) Red Dragon.
(d) Great Heron.

4. What often gets stuck in Miranda's palms as she works on the nets in Chapter 3?
(a) Bird feathers.
(b) Acorns.
(c) Rose thorns.
(d) Rusty hooks.

5. In the end of Chapter 7, Miranda pleads for the doctor's help and the secretary says that she will receive it when?
(a) Next month.
(b) Next week.
(c) Tomorrow.
(d) That night.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest?

2. What does Wysteria tell Miranda when she arrives to meet her in Chapter 6?

3. Miranda is unable to rescue Red Dragon without what happening in Chapter 5?

4. In Chapter 4,Miranda happens upon a skeleton key which can unlock all the doors on what floor of the Manor?

5. What refers to discord of action, feeling, or effect; antagonism or opposition, as of interests or principles?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the early years of Miranda's stay described in Chapter 2? What does Wysteria use to keep Miranda from leaving?

2. How does Miranda's character develop independence in Chapter 3?

3. What happens when Miranda finds the doctor's office in Chapter 7?

4. What strange and habitual behavior is displayed by Wysteria in Chapter 3? What reason does she give for this behavior?

5. What does the character Farley do when he first is introduced in Chapter 5? What is Miranda and Wysteria's reaction to the boy?

6. How does Miranda rediscover the Red Dragon in Chapter 5?

7. What does Miranda encounter when she goes to respond to Wysteria's bell in Chapter 6?

8. What room does Miranda discover in Chapter 4?

9. What is Miranda's response to the boys in Chapter 7? What does she learn of the Manor from them?

10. What leads Miranda to leave the Manor in Chapter 7? Who does she take with her?

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