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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. What are Mrs. Medlock's instructions to Mary as she is shown her two rooms in the Manor?
(a) To keep them tidy and neat.
(b) To never leave her room at night.
(c) To never ask anything of her uncle.
(d) To stay to those rooms, and only those rooms.

2. What is the nickname that is given to Mary by one of the children who she stays with after her parents die?
(a) Unhappy Mary of the Moore.
(b) Mary Mother of Mercy.
(c) Scary Mary.
(d) Mistress Mary Quite Contrary.

3. How did Mrs. Sowerby get her gift for Mary?
(a) She traded cooking for it.
(b) She asked one of her daughters to give it to her.
(c) She bought it with part of Martha's wages.
(d) She made it.

4. What does Mary tell Martha at the end of tea time just after she finds the Secret Garden?
(a) She found the garden.
(b) She wants to meet Martha's mother.
(c) She hates living there.
(d) She heard someone crying.

5. What does Mary do as she plays alone on the day the Cholera breaks out?
(a) Pretends to plant a garden.
(b) Screams for her parents.
(c) Practices her knitting.
(d) Plots to run away.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mary find the source of the mysterious sound she hears the night after meeting her uncle?

2. What does Mary notice about Ben as the weather grows nicer?

3. What is Mary's first impression of her uncle when she is brought to his study?

4. How does Mary get her request to Dickon for what she thinks she needs in the Secret Garden?

5. Who does Mary make friends with as she explores the gardens on her first day at Misselthwaite?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the source of the crying sound that Mary has been hearing at night?

2. What does the Robin show Mary at the bottom of a hole?

3. How did Mrs. Craven die?

4. What does Mary think the moor is when she first drives by it in the carriage?

5. What does Ben Weatherstaff say about Mary when he sees her with her new gift from Mrs. Sowerby?

6. What does Mary do that causes her appetite to increase?

7. What is Mrs. Medlock's first impression of Mary?

8. After meeting her cousin for the first time, what does Mary do before she leaves him?

9. Why does Mary rarely see her parents while living in India?

10. What strikes Mary as odd about the people in Yorkshire?

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