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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. What does Miss Darlington mean when, on page 223, she tells Cecilia "Plan B"?
(a) Cecilia should run away.
(b) Cecilia should stab Morvath.
(c) Cecilia should call for help.
(d) Cecilia should pretend to agree with Morvath.

2. Why does Morvath have a hard time locating the door to the secret passage in the gallery?
(a) He has not used the passages in many years.
(b) Cilla switched the portraits around.
(c) Jane Fairweather has drugged his tea.
(d) He is too angry to really focus on the task.

3. How long has Cecilia been Miss Darlington's ward?
(a) 7 years.
(b) 13 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 16 years.

4. What does Cecilia threaten to stab Ned with in Chapter 1?
(a) An ice pick.
(b) A letter opener.
(c) A fish knife.
(d) A hatpin.

5. How has Lady Armitage prepared in advance for a possible attempt to steal her house?
(a) One of her housemaids is waiting in the wheelhouse with a gun.
(b) There is a hidden trap awaiting anyone who approaches the wheelhouse.
(c) The house's steering mechanism is locked and the key is well hidden.
(d) She has disassembled the house's steering mechanism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Cecilia's stomach--and her understanding of Ned--to flip while they are talking at dinner?

2. What does Miss Darlington's irritation when Ned knocks at their door reveal about Miss Darlington?

3. When Darlington House lifts off in Chapter 4, what dangerous thing happens to Cecilia?

4. What is the rhetorical purpose of Cecilia's misunderstanding of the word "protection" during her intimate encounter with Ned?

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

(see the answer key)

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