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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 happened after the decade of Beatrix's best writing?
(a) Her understanding of herself changed.
(b) She suffered a writing block.
(c) She became disillusioned by the publishing industry.
(d) Her fame began to scare her.

2. What did Beatrix initially plan to do with her farm?
(a) Manage it from afar.
(b) Turn it into a goat farm.
(c) Move her parents there.
(d) Turn it into a studio and gallery.

3. How old was Beatrix's father when he died?
(a) Seventy-five.
(b) Sixty-three.
(c) Eighty-one.
(d) Eighty-eight.

4. In Chapter 7, what did many members of the press think of Beatrix?
(a) She was delusional.
(b) She was dead.
(c) She was gullible.
(d) She was untalented.

5. Who took care of Beatrix's property during World War I?
(a) A hired worker.
(b) Bertram.
(c) Beatrix.
(d) Beatrix's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Beatrix become engaged to in Chapter 5?

2. Why did Beatrix hate change?

3. How is the farm Beatrix purchased described?

4. To whom did Beatrix leave some of her copyrights?

5. In what year did Beatrix write "Johnny Town-Mouse"?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way was Beatrix's purchase of Hill Top Farm symbolic?

2. What does Lane believe was Beatrix's greatest achievement after her 'golden decade' of writing?

3. What did Beatrix find difficult about farm life?

4. What does Lane suggest allowed Beatrix to add a deeper level of reality to her characters?

5. According to Lane, what put an end to Beatrix's best writing years?

6. What event does Lane consider as marking the end of Beatrix's creative period?

7. How was Beatrix's time at Hill Top Farm reflected in the books she published?

8. How did Beatrix prepare for her operation in 1939?

9. What does Lane note Beatrix's stories lacked?

10. What softened Beatrix's reticence for interacting with the public?

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