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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: Chapter 21, "Post-Traumatic Housework Disorder," through Chapter 26, "A Woman's Liberation".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Cecilia first sees her father and thinks of the day her mother died, this is an example of which plot device?
(a) Cliffhanger.
(b) Foreshadowing.
(c) Reversal.
(d) Flashback.

2. When Cecilia, Ned, and Lady Armitage are talking in the woods during the scouting mission in Chapter 13, what does Ned begin to suspect Cecilia is planning?
(a) To join forces with Morvath.
(b) To get captured on purpose.
(c) To steal Northangerland Abbey.
(d) To lose him in the woods.

3. Part of the title of Chapter 18 is "The Villain's Denouement"--what does "denouement" refer to in this context?
(a) A resolution or outcome.
(b) An explanation or description.
(c) A defeat or setback.
(d) A plan or procedure.

4. What new claim about his employment does Ned make in Chapter 8?
(a) The Queen has employed him to keep Cecilia away from Morvath.
(b) Miss Darlington has employed him as Cecilia's bodyguard.
(c) Captain Morvath has employed him to kill Cecilia.
(d) Parliament has employed him to spy on Morvath.

5. What are the "tiny white wishes" that Cecilia is focused on in the scene at Greenwich with her mother (195)?
(a) Lily petals.
(b) Apple blossoms.
(c) Dandelion fluff.
(d) Clover flowers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What author does Jacobsen promise to read to Miss Darlington every day?

2. What threat do Cecilia, Ned, and Lady Armitage use against Jacobsen to get him to reveal information about Morvath's location?

3. Besides tea and cookies, what does Lady Armitage need a constant supply of while she waits for Ned to appear?

4. When he confronts them on their way out of Windsor Castle, what task does Jacobsen tell Cecilia and Miss Darlington he was given?

5. Whom does Miss Darlington suspect of being behind the butler's theft of the house?

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