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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. As children, what would Beatrix and her brother do with animal corpses?
(a) Draw them.
(b) Bury them.
(c) Skin them.
(d) Burn them.

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

3. How did the books Beatrix published after her marriage compare to her others?
(a) They were of lower quality.
(b) They were incomparable.
(c) They were of superior quality.
(d) They were of equal quality.

4. What did Bertram's art focus on?
(a) The Scottish countryside.
(b) The English coast.
(c) The Lake District.
(d) Cityscapes.

5. According to Chapter 4, Beatrix worried her publisher wouldn't like ________________.
(a) Her characters.
(b) Her story's moral.
(c) Her rhymes.
(d) Her water color illustrations.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why didn't Beatrix's parents want her to marry Norman?

2. What did Beatrix do to her farmhouse one year after buying the farm?

3. How did children respond to "The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin"?

4. What did Beatrix make critical comments of in her diary from her early twenties?

5. How did other books choose to illustrate animal characters?

(see the answer key)

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