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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who joins the circle that Collin creates as he tells Mary and Dickon of his future plans?
2. What does Ben suggest that Collin do to show thanks to the garden and its magic?
3. On the rainy day when he cannot go out to the Garden, what does Collin say about the change in Mary's appearance that has occurred from the time they first met?
4. What does Collin think Mrs. Sowerby has after he receives her kind gift in the Garden?
5. What is the Robin doing on the first nice day after all the rain?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Colin chant as part of his experiment to use magic to get well?
2. Why did no one in the garden feel that Mrs. Sowerby was intruding when she came into the garden unannounced?
3. What does Dickon add to Colin's daily routine to help him grow strong?
4. Why is Colin now able to take the curtain off of his mother's portrait?
5. Where does Dickon's mother tell Colin that he will find his mother?
6. What does Ben do when he starts to climb over the wall of the garden and sees Mary there?
7. On the day after Colin's tantrum, what does Mary do for him that makes him laugh?
8. Why is Mary so hesitant to tell Colin that she has found the garden?
9. Why did Ben continue pruning the secret garden after Mr. Craven had ordered it to be locked up?
10. What did Mary learn had made her so unpopular her whole life?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do the characters touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?
Essay Topic 2
How does the key to the garden influence the course of the story and what important cautions were given to those who used it?
Essay Topic 3
Secrecy was an extremely important theme of this book. What were some of the most highly guarded secrets, and how did these secrets affect those who were a part of them? Is secrecy a good thing? Why or why not?
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