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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, Middles: The Silver Garden, Phonetic Alphabet, The Ladder, Eternal Twilight, and Fossilized Tears,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Vida Winter learned most of the family history by listening to whose stories?
(a) The stable boy who was like her old brother.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) The Missus, who was the main kitchen servant.
(d) Her uncle, who wrote down the history.

2. Who was Kitty?
(a) Mrs. Love.
(b) The cat that was tormented by Adline and Emmeline.
(c) Aurelius' first wife.
(d) Mrs. Loves' sister.

3. In Aurelius' "inheritance," there is a page from what book?
(a) The Bible.
(b) Jane Eyre.
(c) Marcus Aurelius.
(d) Great Expectations.

4. Who does Margaret see in the garden when she wanders there in the middle of the night?
(a) Ms. Winters in her wheelchair.
(b) A ghost.
(c) Maurice, the gardener.
(d) Emmeline.

5. Margaret insists that she must leave for how many days?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Seven.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is peculiar about the way Margaret must read "The Thirteen Tales?'

2. In literature, what are examples of the "Rule of Three" which Vida Winter cites?

3. What does the chapter title, "Box of Lives" refer to?

4. Who meets Margaret at the door of Miss Winter's house?

5. What missing bit of information in the "book pages" of the Banbury Herald disappoints Margaret?

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