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. After several days of interviewing Vida Winter, Margaret decides she must leave for a few days. Why?
(a) She needs to ask her father his advice about the writing of the book.
(b) She wants to verify the three facts told to her by Vida Winter.
(c) She is concerned about her sick mother.
(d) She is homesick and wants to visit her family and friends.

2. What is one peculiar aspect of the twins?
(a) One laughs constantly; the other cries constantly.
(b) They are identical except for their hair color.
(c) The tear out their own hair.
(d) They speak in their own language.

3. Is the report of the Angelfield fire confirmed by the Banbury Herald newspaper?
(a) Perhaps. There was a fire, but not in the year Winter had reported.
(b) The fire was only in the barn, not in the main house.
(c) Apparently not. There was no mention of a fire at Anglefield.
(d) Yes.

4. Who else participates in the"experiment" of Hester and the doctor?
(a) The doctor's wife.
(b) John-the-dig.
(c) Isabelle.
(d) Hester's friend, Samuel.

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?
(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 diagnoses insanity and recommends that the twins be sent to an asylum.
(d) He visits every day for two weeks and then gives up in failure.