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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. What figure of speech is present in the phrase "winter dreamed in her eyes" (3)?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Epigram.
(c) Personification.
(d) Simile.

2. Whose butler has stolen her house?
(a) Mrs. Eames's.
(b) Miss Jones's.
(c) Miss Fairweather's.
(d) Miss Brown's.

3. What does Cecilia have for the first time at the hotel?
(a) Rum.
(b) Oysters.
(c) Kidney pie.
(d) Wine.

4. In Chapter 19, what royal occasion does the queen decide to invite Miss Darlington to?
(a) Princess Alice's wedding.
(b) Prince Edward's birthday.
(c) Her Jubilee Banquet.
(d) A garden party.

5. What upsets Cecilia about Ned's kiss at the beginning of Chapter 23?
(a) The room they are in when he kisses her.
(b) She has just told him not to kiss her.
(c) He kisses her in front of witnesses.
(d) His kiss is brief and distracted.

Short Answer Questions

1. Part of the title of Chapter 18 is "The Villain's Denouement"--what does "denouement" refer to in this context?

2. Why have Miss Darlington and Miss Brown fallen out of touch?

3. What does Cecilia mean when she tells Ned that "for an Italian, you have a remarkably Etonian accent" (30)?

4. When Cecilia thinks that Ned looks "like a flower luring victims into its poisonous core," what two techniques are being used (193)?

5. Who urges Cecilia "Abandon your duties. Live in sin" (312)?

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