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The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Summary
Plot Overview
Summary & Analysis
Chapter I
Chapter II- Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V-Chapter VI
Chapter VII-Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X- Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI-Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII-Chapter XIX
Chapter XX-Chapter XXII
Chapter XXIII
Chapter XXIV-XXVI
Chapter XXVII
Characters
Character List
Mary Lennox
Colin Craven
Dickon Sowerby
Main Ideas
Themes
Motifs
Symbols
Key Facts
Quotes
Important Quotes Explained
Further Study
Context
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Character Analysis
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Chapter 1
Chapter 2- Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5-Chapter 6
Chapter 7-Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10- Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16-Chapter 17
Chapter 18-Chapter 19
Chapter 20-Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24-26
Chapter 27
Conceptual Study Questions
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1. 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. Who helps Mary find the key to the secret garden?
Ben Weatherstaff
Mrs. Medlock
The robin redbreast
A mysterious stranger
3. Mary thinks that Colin Craven is like:
An Indian Rajah
Dickon
His father
A small rabbit
4. Misselthwaite Manor is located:
Near the ocean
In the desert
On the shores of a lake
In the middle of a moor
5. 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. Mary thinks of her mother's dresses as being:
As red as blood
As white as snow
Full of lace
Made of steel
7. Mary's mother does not leave India in time to escape the cholera because:
She wanted to go to a dinner party
She was afraid of the journey through the mountains
She couldn't afford a horse on which to make the trip
She was tied to a chair
8. Martha and her family give Mary:
A spotted puppy
A silk scarf
A jar of mustard
A jump rope
9. Dickon, Mary, and Colin learn their daily exercises from:
Bob Haworth
Mr. Pitcher
Ben Weatherstaff
The radio
10. Archibald Craven's wife was named:
Rose
The Lady Spenser
Lilias
Olivia
11. 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 white kitten
A green parrot
A leather-bound book
12. Dickon's crow is named:
Wally
Soot
Cinder
Nut
13. Dickon's crow is named:
Wally
Soot
Cinder
Nut
14. 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
15. 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
16. The door to the secret garden has been locked for:
Seven years
Ten years
Fifteen years
Hundreds of years
17. The writing of
The Secret Garden
was partially motivated by Frances Hodgson Burnett's interest in:
German idealism
French existentialism
Christian science
Catholicism
18.
The Secret Garden
was first published in:
1921
1847
1909
1983
19. The boy who first calls Mary "Quite Contrary" is named:
William
Harold
Colin
Basil
20. The first gardens which Mary explores at Misselthwaite are filled with:
Vegetables and fruit trees
Blooming marigolds
Weeds and dust
Hollyhocks
21. 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
22. Dickon is compared to:
An Indian rajah
A toreador
A snake charmer
A famous English scholar
23. In the Yorkshire dialect that Dickon speaks, this word is used to mean "alive":
Lorry
Mun
Wick
Bonny
24. When Colin grows up, he hopes to:
Make scientific discoveries
Become a boxer
Appear on television
Tend gardens
25. Susan Sowerby compares the world to:
A basketball
An orange
A bowl of cherries
A box of chocolates
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