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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Chapter 11, "A Sudden Awakening," through Chapter 15, "Cecilia's Tragic Childhood".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is The Mysteries of Udolpho?
(a) An English Gothic Romance.
(b) A novel by Branwell Bronte.
(c) The first known detective novel.
(d) An English spiritualist's guide to dealing with ghosts.

2. What technique is evidence in Ned's thought that there is "a wind-colored silence" in Cecilia's eyes (128)?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Synesthesia.
(c) Personification.
(d) Malapropism.

3. Where does Cecilia find the copy of Wuthering Heights she steals in Chapter 11?
(a) In the baggage left inside the carriage she and Ned stole.
(b) Behind some Bibles at the Young Women's Christian Association reading room.
(c) Behind a canister of tea in The Knowles hotel kitchen.
(d) In the saddlebag of one of the horses she steals from the hotel stable.

4. After her conversation with Ned in Chapter 8, what does Cecilia begin to suspect about the Wisteria Society women?
(a) Many of them have never killed anyone.
(b) They are afraid Cecilia will turn out like her father.
(c) More than one of them is in league with Morvath.
(d) They left their houses unguarded as a trap for Morvath.

5. What does Cecilia hope to find when she is searching through her childhood dolls?
(a) Poison.
(b) A photograph.
(c) A key.
(d) A weapon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What figure of speech is present in the phrase "winter dreamed in her eyes" (3)?

2. When Tom looks at himself in the clothing shop, whom does he realize Oply has dressed him to look like?

3. Who fires shots at Darlington House as it comes in for a landing in Ottery St. Mary?

4. When Miss Darlington corrects Cecilia's use of the word "steal" by saying "Obtain by private means," which device is this an example of (4)?

5. 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?

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