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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, Middles: Hester Arrives, The Box of Lives, and The Eye in the Yew,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In their first interview, Winter reveals to Margaret a painful bit of her history earlier than she wanted to.
(a) She had a child out of wedlock who died at age three.
(b) Her father was mentally ill and commited suicide.
(c) At age 16, she experienced a massive fire.
(d) She had eloped with a disreputable man; he left her after only seven months of marriage.

2. Where, and with whom, will Margaret eat her meals?
(a) Always in the large dining room with Winter.
(b) With Winter and her extended family in the large and noisy kitchen.
(c) Alone, in her bedroom.
(d) Sometimes alone and sometimes in the kitchen with the children.

3. What item of Charles Dickens, the author, does Vida Winter discuss with Margaret?
(a) A forgotten manuscript by the famous author.
(b) The exact desk which Dickens owned which Margaret is using to write.
(c) A picture of Dickens with Vida Winter as a child.
(d) A picture of him with characters above his head.

4. Vida Winter says she starts one book as soon as she finishes another because she is afraid to confront which person who keeps trying to get her attention?
(a) Her father.
(b) Herself as a younger person.
(c) Her dead mother.
(d) Her twin.

5. When Ms. Winter is in pain, what is the metaphor she uses to describe this pain?
(a) A wolf.
(b) A storm with brutal winds.
(c) A tiger.
(d) A curtain that suffocates her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the children do that make John-the-Dig and Missus sad?

2. What peculiar record does Margaret find in an almanac about Charlie Angelfield?

3. What is significant about the name of the author, Vida Winter?

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

5. 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?

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