This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Chapter 16, "Breakfast With the Devil," through Chapter 20, "Triumph".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Cecilia goes outside to get some fresh air during the Chapter 6 Wisteria Society meeting, what does she discover is happening?
(a) All of the Wisteria Society husbands are meeting at Miss Brown's house.
(b) Mrs. Rotunder's butler is meeting with a mysterious cloaked man.
(c) Tom Eames is listening at the window of Mrs. Rotunder's house.
(d) Ned is helping Morvath steal Miss Dole's house.

2. At the beginning of Chapter 20, what does the narrator say Ned would refuse to do if he could live his life over again?
(a) Read Morvath's writing.
(b) Allow his house to be pushed from a cliff.
(c) Accept the contract on Cecilia's life.
(d) Eat kippers.

3. What does Ned pretend to see in order to slow Cecilia down enough to catch her as she is running through the portrait gallery?
(a) A picture of Branwell Bronte.
(b) One of Morvath's henchmen.
(c) Miss Darlington.
(d) A bookshelf.

4. Whose "high, fine voice" do Ned and Cecilia unexpectedly hear while they are in the secret passage (209)?
(a) Jane Fairweather's.
(b) Lady Armitage's.
(c) Miss Brown's.
(d) Miss Darlington's.

5. When the narrative describes the Wisteria Society women inside the Ancient Mariner as "an Impressionist's fever dream," what claim is being made about their appearance (79)?
(a) It is terrifying and surreal.
(b) It is elaborate and colorful.
(c) It is somber and foreboding.
(d) It is flashy and tasteless.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the flashback in which Cecilia writes down plans for killing her father, what new information is communicated about her father's murder of her mother?

2. What does Cecilia throw at Morvath's feet in Chapter 18?

3. When Cecilia first sees her father and thinks of the day her mother died, this is an example of which plot device?

4. Where does Alex carry his portrait of Cilla?

5. When Frederick catches sight of Cecilia's leg, with whose great beauty does he favorably compare Cecilia's?

(see the answer key)

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