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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, The Beatrix Potter Books.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Beatrix feel growing up as a result of not being a part of her parents' lives?
(a) Independent.
(b) Unwanted.
(c) Lonely.
(d) Free.

2. What did Beatrix do in the countryside while visiting Caroline?
(a) Wrote poetry.
(b) Caught butterflied.
(c) Photographed animals.
(d) Hunted fowl.

3. How old were Beatrix and Norman when they decided to marry?
(a) Forty-five years old.
(b) Nearly thirty years old.
(c) Nearly forty years old.
(d) Thirty-five years old.

4. How is "The Tailor of Gloucester" said to be different from Beatrix's other books?
(a) It is in rhyme.
(b) It is about human characters.
(c) It is more adult.
(d) It is more diverse.

5. What enabled Beatrix to add a deeper level of reality to her characters?
(a) Providing illustrations of them.
(b) Dressing them in clothes.
(c) Basing them on people she knew.
(d) Their real-life counterparts which she cared for.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Beatrix's brother's name?

2. What is a common theme in Beatrix's work?

3. What was the surname of Beatrix's cousin Caroline?

4. What about Norman's personality made her more comfortable with him?

5. What part of animal corpses would Beatrix and her brother keep?

(see the answer key)

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