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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. What is Collin most afraid will give away his improving health to the staff?
2. What is beside Dickon as he works in the garden on the first nice day after all the rain?
3. How does Dickon's mother know that Mr. Craven is on his way home?
4. What does Collin think is making him well in the Garden?
5. Who does Collin see climbing over the wall of the Garden?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where does Dickon's mother tell Colin that he will find his mother?
2. Why did no one in the garden feel that Mrs. Sowerby was intruding when she came into the garden unannounced?
3. Why does Colin have to wait so long to see the garden after he and Mary make the plans to go there?
4. Why did Ben continue pruning the secret garden after Mr. Craven had ordered it to be locked up?
5. What does Colin threaten to do to Mary to make sure she will come to visit him?
6. Why is Colin now able to take the curtain off of his mother's portrait?
7. What does Colin realize as he and Mary view all the different portraits in Misselthwaite Manor?
8. Why is Mary so hesitant to tell Colin that she has found the garden?
9. What does Mary tell Colin once he has calmed down from his hysterics?
10. What gift does Mary find from her uncle when she gets to her room after her fight with Colin?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What happens to Colin at the the end of the book, and what deeper meanings does this event imply? How does this one event change Colin's life and perspective and why do you think the author placed this scene where he did?
Essay Topic 2
How do Mary and Colin change through the course of the book and what causes these changes?
Essay Topic 3
Colin introduces the theme of magic in this book. Where are some of the key places that this theme appears, and how do these events alter the plot of the book?
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