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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the landscape like on the trip north to Vida Winter's house?
(a) Icy winds and snow slowed her travel; Margaret was nearly frozen when she arrived the next morning.
(b) The moors; green rolling hills, quaint villages, remote wilderness.
(c) After a drive through a scenic green countryside, Winters' lush flower gardens were a pleasant surprise.
(d) First a large city with urban sprawl, then finally to a old mansion in the countryside.

2. What is the proof Margaret sees to prove she was a twin?
(a) Margaret's parents finally tell her the truth, and show her legal documents.
(b) She is sent a letter with a picture of her parents with both babies.
(c) She answers the door and sees her twin standing there.
(d) She finds her sister's birth certificate and death certificate.

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, according to common practice of the time, uses leeches to try to clean their blood.
(b) He diagnoses insanity and recommends that the twins be sent to an asylum.
(c) He visits every day for two weeks and then gives up in failure.
(d) He sends his wife to talk to the twin's mother.

4. Describe the abrupt change in the way Isabelle's father treats her.
(a) He becomes a doting father to the baby; singing lullabyes and reading stories.
(b) He hires extra help to make sure she is well cared for and entertained.
(c) He loves her at first, but after a few months begins to disdain her and hate her presence.
(d) He leaves suddenly, leaving her in the care of the gardener and cook.

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

6. Why does Hester think she has seen a ghost?
(a) She hears singing coming from the library. When she enters, there is no one there, but the locked door is open.
(b) She sees the twins together, even though they are physically in two different places.
(c) She sees a woman in white three different times in the garden.
(d) She sees lights on the moors and the faint shape of a woman on horseback.

7. When Isabelle returns after being away for several months, she comes back with what or whom?
(a) Her father's money from a bank in London.
(b) An emerald ring that her father suspected was stolen.
(c) Two packages, which are two babies.
(d) A handsome husband.

8. What does Hester typically do after cleaning a room in Angelfield?
(a) Lock the room.
(b) Spray a perfume with the fragrance of lavendar.
(c) Take down all of the pictures.
(d) Invite the twins to see the difference.

9. What is Margaret's least favorite month?
(a) February.
(b) August.
(c) April.
(d) December.

10. What is a perambulator?
(a) A constable ( police officer).
(b) An early kind of phonograph or music player.
(c) A baby carriage, or stroller.
(d) A heater which uses water.

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

12. What experiment (for research's sake) do Hester and the doctor carry out?
(a) Isolation and starvation as treatment for mental ilness.
(b) Shock treament for mental illness.
(c) Using bribery to entice Charlie to leave Angelfield.
(d) The separation of Angeline and Emmeline.

13. What is one distinctive feature about Angelfield when Margaret first explores it?
(a) It is in perfect shape except for a few broken windows.
(b) There are beautiful stained glass windows.
(c) There is no roof.
(d) Two black cats dart in and out of her vision as she walks the grounds.

14. In the first interview, Margaret asks for three bits of information. What is the response to this from Vida Winter?
(a) She gives many examples from stories about the importance of three.
(b) She refuses to answer Margaret, saying she (Ms. Winter) will tell the story on her terms.
(c) She laughs, saying that five is a better number.
(d) She refuses, and threatens to find another author.

15. In what way did the bookstore help in Margaret's education?
(a) Margaret's favorite teachers came in and spent extra hours tutoring her.
(b) She first learned her alphabet because the books were in alphabetical order.
(c) Margaret's mother read to her for hours as they worked in the shop.
(d) The fascinating people that entered the store taught her about the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the phrase from the letter Margaret has received that keeps running through Margaret's mind?

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

3. What process does Margaret use to write the biography?

4. What kind of writing of Margaret's has been published?

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

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