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The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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How did Archibald Craven's wife die?

(A) Starvation

(B) After a bad fall from a tree

(D) Pecked to death by ducks

Who helps Mary find the key to the secret garden?

(A) Ben Weatherstaff

(B) Mrs. Medlock

(D) A mysterious stranger

Mary thinks that Colin Craven is like:

(A) An Indian Rajah

(B) Dickon

(D) A small rabbit

Misselthwaite Manor is located:

(A) Near the ocean

(B) In the desert

(D) In the middle of a moor

Archibald Craven sends Mary a number of gifts. These DO NOT include:

(A) A picture-book

(B) A painted doll

(D) A children's game

Mary thinks of her mother's dresses as being:

(A) As red as blood

(B) As white as snow

(D) Made of steel

Mary's mother does not leave India in time to escape the cholera because:

(A) She wanted to go to a dinner party

(B) She was afraid of the journey through the mountains

(D) She was tied to a chair

Martha and her family give Mary:

(A) A spotted puppy

(B) A silk scarf

(D) A jump rope

Dickon, Mary, and Colin learn their daily exercises from:

(A) Bob Haworth

(B) Mr. Pitcher

(D) The radio

Archibald Craven's wife was named:

(A) Rose

(B) The Lady Spenser

(D) Olivia

In one of Misselthwaite's many rooms, Mary finds a portrait of a girl who resembles herself. This girl is holding:

(A) A single rose

(B) A white kitten

(D) A leather-bound book

Dickon's crow is named:

(A) Wally

(B) Soot

(D) Nut

Dickon's crow is named:

(A) Wally

(B) Soot

(D) Nut

When Mary first goes wandering through Misselthwaite Manor, she finds:

(A) An ancient Greek statue

(B) A pair of silver candlesticks

(D) A collection of ivory elephants

Dickon is constantly accompanied by a menagerie of animals. These DO NOT include:

(A) A fighting hawk

(B) A newborn lamb

(D) A moor pony

The door to the secret garden has been locked for:

(A) Seven years

(B) Ten years

(D) Hundreds of years

The writing of The Secret Garden was partially motivated by Frances Hodgson Burnett's interest in:

(A) German idealism

(B) French existentialism

(D) Catholicism

The Secret Garden was first published in:

(A) 1921

(B) 1847

(D) 1983

The boy who first calls Mary "Quite Contrary" is named:

(A) William

(B) Harold

(D) Basil

The first gardens which Mary explores at Misselthwaite are filled with:

(A) Vegetables and fruit trees

(B) Blooming marigolds

(D) Hollyhocks

In the secret garden, Mary, Dickon, Colin, and Ben Weatherstaff sing a song together. It is called:

(A) Sweet Home Alabama

(B) The Doxology

(D) God Bless the Child

Dickon is compared to:

(A) An Indian rajah

(B) A toreador

(D) A famous English scholar

In the Yorkshire dialect that Dickon speaks, this word is used to mean "alive":

(A) Lorry

(B) Mun

(D) Bonny

When Colin grows up, he hopes to:

(A) Make scientific discoveries

(B) Become a boxer

(D) Tend gardens

Susan Sowerby compares the world to:

(A) A basketball

(B) An orange

(D) A box of chocolates

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