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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What portraits in Misslethwaite are most interesting to Mary?
(a) Portraits of animals.
(b) Portraits of women.
(c) Portaits of families.
(d) Portaits of children.

2. Why is Mary always given her way at the beginning of the book?
(a) The doctors are afraid crying will weaken her sickly frame.
(b) Her mother is loving and never wants her to be unhappy.
(c) The servants don't want her to cry and anger her parents.
(d) The servants are a lower class than her and must obey her will.

3. What does Mary notice about Ben as the weather grows nicer?
(a) He seems sickly.
(b) He is getting forgetful.
(c) He has a shorter temper.
(d) He is in a better mood.

4. How does Mary spend most of her days after finding the Garden?
(a) Planting her new seeds.
(b) Digging and weeding.
(c) Talking to the Robin.
(d) Running and jumping.

5. What does Mary think she hears at night in Misselthwaite?
(a) A child crying.
(b) An animal in pain.
(c) A woman screaming.
(d) A ghost laughing.

6. What does Martha tell Mary the mysterious sound she hears at night really is?
(a) The wind.
(b) The chimneys.
(c) A child.
(d) Rain.

7. What causes Mary to go outside to the gardens, even on cold and windy days?
(a) Curiostiy.
(b) Fear.
(c) Obedience.
(d) Boredom.

8. What does Mary need to know about Dickon before she will show him her garden?
(a) If he will be her friend.
(b) If he will teach her what she needs to do.
(c) If he will laugh at her.
(d) If he can keep secrets.

9. What does Dickon tell Mary about the work she has done without his help in the garden?
(a) She was in tune with the living things.
(b) She had excellent instincts.
(c) She needs some guidance.
(d) She was doing the wrong things.

10. How does Mary find the source of the mysterious sound she hears the night after meeting her uncle?
(a) The source comes to her.
(b) She follows the sound to a door with light underneath.
(c) She runs to find her uncle, and he shows her.
(d) She asks Martha to take her to it.

11. What happens as Mary is playing by herself in Chapter 1?
(a) Her Ayah dies.
(b) An angry mob rushes into the house.
(c) Mary is told she must be sent away.
(d) An earthquake causes the house to fall down.

12. Why did Mary's uncle not get her a governess?
(a) He forgot her.
(b) Mrs. Medlock was supposed to see to that.
(c) He thinks she is too old.
(d) Mrs. Sowrby told him not to.

13. What is the name of the place that Mary is sent after the Cholera breaks out?
(a) Mission Place Manor.
(b) Mighty Light Manor.
(c) Misselthwaite Manor.
(d) Misseltoe Manor.

14. How did Mrs. Craven die?
(a) She gave birth.
(b) She got cholera.
(c) She froze to death on the moor.
(d) She sat on a tree bough and it broke.

15. Where is Mary living at the beginning of the book?
(a) China.
(b) India.
(c) England.
(d) America.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who takes Mary in temporarily after her parents die?

2. What is Mary afraid of a she looks through the garden?

3. What is the name of Mary's closest living relative?

4. In what county is Mary's new home?

5. What does Mary hate most about her life at Misslethwaite?

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