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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One, Beginnings: Dickens's Study, The Almanacs, In the Archives of the Banbury Herald, Ruins, The Friendly Giant, and Graves,.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What peculiar record does Margaret find in an almanac about Charlie Angelfield?
(a) His death was recent, only two years before she met Ms. Winter.
(b) He wrote a newspaper article about the hauntings of ghosts at Angelfield.
(c) He was declared legally dead.
(d) He died on the night that the twins were born, making WInter's story untrue.
2. As the twins grow, what disturbing pattern emerges regarding them in the village and surrounding houses?
(a) The twins walk into unlocked houses and take what they want.
(b) The twins begin to frighten smaller children with stories about ghosts.
(c) The twins talk of drowning their mother and poisoning the servants.
(d) The twins are caught running without clothes on through the middle of town.
3. When Winter returns to the telling of her story, she talks of the village men asking for Dr. Maudsley's help with the twins. How does the doctor first attempt to solve the problem?
(a) He sends his wife to talk to the twin's mother.
(b) He, according to common practice of the time, uses leeches to try to clean their blood.
(c) He visits every day for two weeks and then gives up in failure.
(d) He diagnoses insanity and recommends that the twins be sent to an asylum.
4. A woman in white used what to hurt a visitor to the Angelfield house?
(a) A violin.
(b) A fireplace poker.
(c) Poison.
(d) The cords of the heavy curtains.
5. What kind of writing of Margaret's has been published?
(a) Essays about the lives of authors.
(b) Essays about royalty in the thirteenth century.
(c) Non-fiction accounts of collectors, especially book and watch collectors.
(d) Short novels, always wth thirteen chapters.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Margaret's opinion about Vida Winter's writing?
2. What process does Margaret use to write the biography?
3. Where and with whom does Margaret Lea spend her days?
4. Describe the abrupt change in the way Isabelle's father treats her.
5. What is one overwhelming first impression of Vida Winter's house?
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