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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 thinks that Ned looks "like a flower luring victims into its poisonous core," what two techniques are being used (193)?
(a) Personification and simile.
(b) Metonymy and hyperbole.
(c) Simile and metonymy.
(d) Hyperbole and personification.

2. Whose idea is it to have tea in Ottery St. Mary?
(a) Miss Darlington's.
(b) Miss Brown's.
(c) Miss Fairweather's.
(d) Mrs. Rotunder's.

3. What does Cecilia mean when she tells Ned that "for an Italian, you have a remarkably Etonian accent" (30)?
(a) She knows that Ned is from Northern England, not Italy.
(b) She thinks that Ned is trying to disguise his Italian accent.
(c) She suspects Ned of being a well-educated, upper-class Englishman.
(d) She dislikes Italians and thinks the way they speak is comical.

4. At the beginning of Chapter 22, what does Miss Darlington keep asking Pleasance to add more of to her tea?
(a) Sherry.
(b) Sugar.
(c) Milk.
(d) Whiskey.

5. When she is on her way into Windsor Castle to see Miss Darlington, who stops Cecilia to ask her why it took her and Ned so long to arrive?
(a) Lieutenant Fluthian.
(b) Oply.
(c) Jane.
(d) Alex.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Pleasance smells smoke and realizes that fire might be on its way, what is her first thought?

2. What excuse does Lady Armitage give for her difficulties in flying her house?

3. When, in Chapter 11, Ned introduces himself to Cecilia as "Ned Lightbourne...Captain of Her Majesty's secret police brigade," how is Cecila's reaction best described?

4. What threat does Morvath use to try to make Cecilia leave the secret passage?

5. When Cecilia goes outside to get some fresh air during the Chapter 6 Wisteria Society meeting, what does she discover is happening?

(see the answer key)

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