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. When she has trouble falling asleep the night after receiving the letter, what does Margaret do?
(a) She reads everything she can about twins.
(b) She wakes up her mother and makes her talk about her twin.
(c) She decides to try one of the "dark spells" she has read about earlier in the day.
(d) She takes a rare book from the shop and begins to read it.

2. What is the disturbing event that take place between the two twins after Hester has left?
(a) The girls become physically attracted to the same young man.
(b) It is implied that Charlie, their uncle, sexually abuses them.
(c) Adeline attacks and harms Emmeline.
(d) Emmeline attacks and harms Adeline.

3. Where does Hester's lengthy conversation about the twins take place?
(a) In the twin's playroom.
(b) In the library.
(c) On a boat, so that twins can not hear.
(d) In the topiary garden.

4. What does the chapter title, "Box of Lives" refer to?
(a) Margaret keeps a 3x5 card on many people, and she keepst these cards in a box.
(b) Winter keeps many items from her past in a safe in her bedroom; she finally shows the box to Margaret.
(c) Vida Winter says she keeps "opening up the box" to reveal the secrets of her past.
(d) Margaret finds an old box near the ruins of the old church.

5. Hester 's and the doctor's actions result in what consequences?
(a) The doctor is proud of her work, and the experiment has been successful.
(b) She is able to publish her article.
(c) When they solve the ghost mystery, the town begins to like Hester.
(d) Hester leaves Angelfield and the town immediately.