Secret Garden Ch. 1-15 Test 1. Where (what country) is Mary located in the first chapter of the novel?
2. Describe Mary’s relationship with her parents:
3. What disease kills Mary’s parents and servants?
4. What nickname is Mary given when she stays with the priest?
5. How is Mr. Archibald Craven related to Mary?
6. Why does Mary have trouble relating to Martha (and everyone else) at first?
7. What is Ben Weatherstaff’s job?
8. What about Dickon first fascinates Mary (hint: it’s like a superpower)?
9. How are Dickon and Martha related?
10. Why does Mr. Craven seal up the secret garden?
11. Who/what digs up the key for Mary?
12. Describe what Mary hears about Archibald Craven (3 things):

13. Describe what Mr. Craven is actually like when Mary meets him (3 things):
14. Who/what makes the crying noise that Mary keep hearing inside?
15. What is ironic about Mr. Craven telling Mary she can have a garden spot?
16. What is the project Mary and Dickon are working on?
17. Who is in the picture in Colin’s room?
18. What does Dickon think is making Colin sick?
19. Why does Mr. Craven avoid Colin?
20. Why does Colin say he hates his mother?
21. What do Colin and Mary have in common (think about the people they encounter during their early years)?
22. Why does Mary not want Colin to see the secret garden at first?
23. How has the garden helped Mary?

Hich line in this excerpt from jonathan swift's "a modest proposal" uses the rhetorical device of irony? and secondly, (there being a round million of creatures in humane figure throughout this kingdom, whose whole subsistence put into a common stock, would leave them in debt two million of pounds sterling), adding those who are beggars by profession, to the bulk of farmers, cottagers and labourers, with their wives and children, who are beggars in effect; i desire those politicians who dislike my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attempt an answer, that they will first ask the parents of these mortals, whether they would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old, in the manner i prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as (they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither house nor cloaths to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather,) and the most inevitable prospect of intailing the like, or greater miseries, upon their breed for ever. i profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that( i have not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the publick good of my country,) by advancing our trade, providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving some pleasure to the rich.( i have no children, by which i can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past child-bearing. reset next)