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- 1. Multiple Choice
How did Archibald Craven's wife die?
Starvation
After a bad fall from a tree
In a house fire
Pecked to death by ducks
- 2. Multiple Choice
Who helps Mary find the key to the secret garden?
Ben Weatherstaff
The robin redbreast
Mrs. Medlock
A mysterious stranger
- 3. Multiple Choice
Mary thinks that Colin Craven is like:
An Indian Rajah
Dickon
His father
A small rabbit
- 4. Multiple Choice
Misselthwaite Manor is located:
Near the ocean
In the desert
On the shores of a lake
In the middle of a moor
- 5. Multiple Choice
Archibald Craven sends Mary a number of gifts. These DO NOT include:
A picture-book
A painted doll
A golden pen
A children's game
- 6. Multiple Choice
Mary thinks of her mother's dresses as being:
As red as blood
As white as snow
Full of lace
Made of steel
- 7. Multiple Choice
Mary's mother does not leave India in time to escape the cholera because:
She wanted to go to a dinner party
She couldn't afford a horse on which to make the trip
She was afraid of the journey through the mountains
She was tied to a chair
- 8. Multiple Choice
Martha and her family give Mary:
A spotted puppy
A jar of mustard
A silk scarf
A jump rope
- 9. Multiple Choice
Dickon, Mary, and Colin learn their daily exercises from:
Bob Haworth
Ben Weatherstaff
Mr. Pitcher
The radio
- 10. Multiple Choice
Archibald Craven's wife was named:
Rose
Lilias
The Lady Spenser
Olivia
- 11. Multiple Choice
In one of Misselthwaite's many rooms, Mary finds a portrait of a girl who resembles herself. This girl is holding:
A single rose
A green parrot
A white kitten
A leather-bound book
- 12. Multiple Choice
Dickon's crow is named:
Wally
Soot
Cinder
Nut
- 13. Multiple Choice
When Mary first goes wandering through Misselthwaite Manor, she finds:
An ancient Greek statue
A pair of silver candlesticks
A highly-polished grand piano
A collection of ivory elephants
- 14. Multiple Choice
Dickon is constantly accompanied by a menagerie of animals. These DO NOT include:
A fighting hawk
A newborn lamb
A red fox cub
A moor pony
- 15. Multiple Choice
The door to the secret garden has been locked for:
Seven years
Ten years
Fifteen years
Hundreds of years
- 16. Multiple Choice
The writing of The Secret Garden was partially motivated by Frances Hodgson Burnett's interest in:
German idealism
Christian science
Catholicism
French existentialism
- 17. Multiple Choice
The Secret Garden was first published in:
1921
1847
1909
1983
- 18. Multiple Choice
The boy who first calls Mary "Quite Contrary" is named:
William
Harold
Colin
Basil
- 19. Multiple Choice
The first gardens which Mary explores at Misselthwaite are filled with:
Vegetables and fruit trees
Blooming marigolds
Weeds and dust
Hollyhocks
- 20. Multiple Choice
In the secret garden, Mary, Dickon, Colin, and Ben Weatherstaff sing a song together. It is called:
Sweet Home Alabama
The Doxology
Come All Ye Faithful
God Bless the Child
- 21. Multiple Choice
Dickon is compared to:
An Indian rajah
A snake charmer
A toreador
A famous English scholar
- 22. Multiple Choice
In the Yorkshire dialect that Dickon speaks, this word is used to mean "alive":
Lorry
Wick
Mun
Bonny
- 23. Multiple Choice
When Colin grows up, he hopes to:
Make scientific discoveries
Become a boxer
Appear on television
Tend gardens
- 24. Multiple Choice
Susan Sowerby compares the world to:
A basketball
An orange
A bowl of cherries
A box of chocolates
- 25. Multiple Choice
Who takes Mary to London?
Mrs. Medlock
Archibald Craven’s housekeeper
Colin Craven
An officer’s wife
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