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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 would the servants do while the Potter family visited the sea?
(a) They would clean the home.
(b) They would accompany the Potters.
(c) They would rest.
(d) They would visit their loved ones.

2. How long did it take to translate the code in Beatrix's diary?
(a) Five years.
(b) Three years.
(c) One year.
(d) Ten years.

3. What would Beatrix sometimes write about while in Scotland?
(a) The animals she saw.
(b) Characteristics of certain plants.
(c) The people who lived nearby.
(d) Adventures around the world.

4. What ideas did Beatrix believe in as stated in Chapter 1?
(a) The ideas of heredity.
(b) The ideas of animal behavior.
(c) The ideas of lightness and darkness.
(d) The ideas of familial love.

5. What did Beatrix's parents discourage?
(a) Painting and writing.
(b) Vanity.
(c) Crying.
(d) Gossip.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Beatrix's hedgehog character?

2. What was Beatrix's full name?

3. What did Warnes tell Beatrix she would have to do if she wanted him to publish "The Tale of Peter Rabbit"?

4. What did Beatrix and her brother collect together as children?

5. What was against Caroline's beliefs?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Edmund Potter, Beatrix's grandfather.

2. Who was Canon Rawnsley?

3. How did Beatrix and Norman grow closer to one another?

4. How did Beatrix deal with the pain of Norman's death?

5. How is Beatrix's cousin Caroline Hutton described in Chapter 4?

6. How did Beatrix go about printing her own copies of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit"?

7. How was Beatrix viewed socially as she grew up and became an adult?

8. What did Beatrix think of her childhood surroundings?

9. Why were Bertram and Beatrix in the countryside with their father?

10. How was the Warne family different from Beatrix's family?

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