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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Emily advise her aunt to relinquish her estates to Montoni rather than continuing to resist his will?
(a) Montoni forces Emily to advise her aunt to give in to him.
(b) Emily wants to see her aunt ruined financially.
(c) Emily fears Montoni's possible violence toward her aunt.
(d) Emily has fallen in love with Montoni.

2. Who is the prisoner in the chamber next to Emily's at Udolpho?
(a) Orsino.
(b) Ludovico.
(c) Madame Montoni.
(d) Bernardine.

3. About whom does Emily compose a poem called "The Piedmontese"?
(a) Valancourt.
(b) Cavigni.
(c) Orsino.
(d) Monsieur St. Albert.

4. Why do Valancourt's fellow soldiers plot his demise?
(a) Another soldier is a rival for Emily.
(b) They feel censured by Valancourt's reserve.
(c) They are pirates.
(d) Montoni has hired them to kill Valancourt.

5. In Chapter Six of Volume Two, who arrives at castle di Udolpho by carriage at midnight?
(a) Valancourt.
(b) Bertolini.
(c) Signor Orsini.
(d) Count Morano.

Short Answer Questions

1. On the banks of what river is the chateau of Monsieur St. Albert located?

2. Who enters Emily's chamber at Udolpho in the middle of the night and begs Emily to run away with him?

3. What does Emily St. Albert find written on a wainscot in Chapter One?

4. In Chapter Ten of Volume Two, in what does Emily's aunt demonstrate a delight?

5. In Chapter Five of Volume Two, who wakes Emily in the night to tell her to prepare to leave Venice immediately for castle di Udolpho in the Apenines?

Short Essay Questions

1. What mysterious things happen while Emily and her parents visit the fishing-house in Chapter One?

2. Why is Montoni's ire because Count Morano is not as affluent as he pretended to be ironic?

3. What does the peasant La Voisin's desire to die and join his wife in Chapter Six seem to mirror in Monsieur St. Albert?

4. Why does Madame Montoni want to go to castle di Udolpho in the Apennines?

5. How does Montoni inherit the castle from Signora Laurentini?

6. What delays Emily's forced marriage to Count Morano?

7. What does Monsieur Quesnel do with the family estate at La Vallee, and what do his actions indicate?

8. How does Ludovico's reason for locking Annette up differ from Montoni's reason for locking up Madame Montoni?

9. Does Monsieur Quesnel, Emily's maternal uncle and Monsieur St. Albert's brother-in-law, marry for love or for financial gain?

10. Why does Montoni want Emily to wear the most splendid dress she owns for dinner with his cavaliers?

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