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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What fake names does Ned give for himself and Cecilia at the hotel?
(a) Rochester and Jane.
(b) Albert and Victoria.
(c) Heathcliff and Catherine.
(d) Henry and Anne.

2. What did Miss Darlington steal from Mr. Rotunder?
(a) His scrapbook.
(b) His sextant.
(c) His wooden leg.
(d) His glass eye.

3. What is Jane constantly reading throughout Chapters 6 and 7?
(a) A book of Wordsworth poems.
(b) Jane Eyre.
(c) A book of war poems.
(d) Wuthering Heights.

4. Why does Lady Armitage wish to have Cecilia killed?
(a) To steal a necklace Cecilia owns.
(b) To send a message to the Wisteria Socity.
(c) To punish Patrick Morvath.
(d) To weaken Miss Darlington.

5. Where is Cecilia's mother?
(a) She abandoned Cecilia when Cecilia was nine.
(b) She was murdered many years ago.
(c) She is in jail for stealing a valuable diamond.
(d) She went missing during a battle with witches.

6. When Cecilia tells Ned that, since he is the one doing the killing, it is his responsibility to "provide the coin for Charon," what technique is being used (31)?
(a) Allegory.
(b) Homage.
(c) Non Sequitur.
(d) Allusion.

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

8. On page 28, the text refers to nuns who are "made mad" by the songs of "selkies." What is a "selkie"?
(a) A creature that can change from a seal into a human.
(b) A voracious being that grows thinner the more it eats.
(c) Tiny human-like creatures that live underground in forests.
(d) The wandering spirit of someone who died by drowning.

9. When Cecilia goes outside to get some fresh air during the Chapter 6 Wisteria Society meeting, what does she discover is happening?
(a) All of the Wisteria Society husbands are meeting at Miss Brown's house.
(b) Ned is helping Morvath steal Miss Dole's house.
(c) Tom Eames is listening at the window of Mrs. Rotunder's house.
(d) Mrs. Rotunder's butler is meeting with a mysterious cloaked man.

10. Why is Pleasance anxious about going into the village for tea at the beginning of Chapter 7?
(a) She is afraid of the ghosts at the Ancient Mariner.
(b) She worries about Cecilia's health.
(c) She thinks the house will be stolen.
(d) She is nervous around the women of the Wisteria Society.

11. Where are Oply and Tom while the women are making their way to the Ancient Mariner?
(a) At the Brown house, studying math.
(b) At the Chanters House library.
(c) In an Ottery St. Mary graveyard.
(d) Repairing the Eames house.

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

13. What are the women referring to when they speak of the "Great Peril" (81)?
(a) The police.
(b) Freckles.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Rain.

14. Why does Ned have to travel by foot or horseback?
(a) His house went off a cliff.
(b) He does not want people to know he is a pirate.
(c) He does not know the flying incantation.
(d) Patrick Morvath has stolen his house.

15. What does Jane imply is unladylike about Oply?
(a) Her language.
(b) Her hairstyle.
(c) Her clothing.
(d) Her manners.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the house where Cecilia lived when she was a small child?

2. After her conversation with Ned in Chapter 8, what does Cecilia begin to suspect about the Wisteria Society women?

3. When Ned is trying to decide what Cecilia's nickname should be, to what flower does he compare her?

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

5. What unexpected thing does Ned do as he is leaving Lady Armitage's house?

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