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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, Middles: Everybody Has a Story, December Days, Sisters, A Diary and a Train, Demolishing the Past, and Hester's Diary II,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vida Winter ask of Margaret when Margaret is sick?
(a) For Margaret to hurry and finish the book in the next month.
(b) To stop trying to figure out the twin language.
(c) To hear Margaret's story.
(d) Not to go away for Christmas.

2. Where is Margaret when Emmeline's strange and undecipherable words become clear to her?
(a) In the library with Winter.
(b) Taking a bath.
(c) At the edge of the lake.
(d) In the moonlit garden.

3. Hester is troubled about a boy in the garden. Why?
(a) She thinks he should be in school.
(b) She is worried that he is flirting with the twins.
(c) She thinks he might be John-the-dig's son.
(d) She thinks he is stealing food.

4. In what condition is Charlie when Adeline finds him?
(a) Dead, murdered by Isabelle.
(b) Dead, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
(c) Alive, but very sick and hardly breathing.
(d) Dead, murdered by the twins.

5. Hester has become quite well-read on what subject?
(a) The geneological history of the Angelfield family.
(b) The architecture of old English houses.
(c) The treatment of mental illness using leeches.
(d) The relationship and behavior of twins.

Short Answer Questions

1. Winter's frankness and honesty create a strong first reaction in Margaret. Early in their first conversation, Margaret:

2. What is tragic about the birth of Isabelle, the twins' mother?

3. What are the words that come to Margaret as she struggles to understand them?

4. Why does Aurelius like to come to Angelfield?

5. Describe the abrupt change in the way Isabelle's father treats her.

(see the answer key)

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