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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. After dinner in Chapter 13, what suspicion does Ned share with Cecilia?
(a) He suspects that Lady Armitage is scheming to marry him.
(b) He suspects that Jacobsen intentionally let himself be captured.
(c) He suspects that Jacobsen has lied to them about Morvath's location.
(d) He suspects that Lady Armitage has betrayed them to Morvath.

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

3. What technique is used when Cecilia says that "Night is like the underskin of a poem" (121)?
(a) Allegory.
(b) Synecdoche.
(c) Oxymoron.
(d) Simile.

4. How does Ned stop Cecilia from confiding her rescue plan to Miss Fairweather?
(a) He pretends to be choking on a kipper.
(b) He claps a hand over her mouth and refuses to let her speak.
(c) He throws a dagger into the wall behind her.
(d) He overturns the teapot and floods the table with tea.

5. How does Lady Armitage feel when she thinks that Cecilia is really dead?
(a) Frightened.
(b) Confused.
(c) Thrilled.
(d) Remorseful.

Short Answer Questions

1. The rumor that Verisimilitude Jones is so old that she once stole a cake from Marie Antoinette contains examples of which techniques?

2. What is Jane constantly reading throughout Chapters 6 and 7?

3. What are the women referring to when they speak of the "Great Peril" (81)?

4. What does Ned pretend to see in order to slow Cecilia down enough to catch her as she is running through the portrait gallery?

5. What are the "tiny white wishes" that Cecilia is focused on in the scene at Greenwich with her mother (195)?

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