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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tom find out about Oply in Chapter 8?
(a) She is a terrible fencer.
(b) She already has a boyfriend.
(c) She is only 16.
(d) She loves Wordsworth's poetry.

2. What does Cecilia tell Oply is the reason that Jane is not yet a senior member of the Wisteria Society?
(a) Jane does not have her "wings."
(b) Jane has not yet graduated from school.
(c) Jane has never robbed a bank.
(d) Jane is considered unreliable and sneaky.

3. What excuse does Lady Armitage give for her difficulties in flying her house?
(a) She is so smart that her mind overpowers the flying incantation.
(b) Her lady's maid, who assists her with navigation, is distracted by a romance with a local librarian.
(c) Her original house burned down in a battle, and she is not yet used to flying the new one.
(d) The wind patterns over England have become strange and unpredictable.

4. What reason does Ned give Cecilia for knowing the area of Sidmouth well?
(a) Sidmouth is where his house was located when it was pushed off a cliff.
(b) He knows it from an undercover job as a village butcher.
(c) Sidmouth is where he grew up.
(d) He knows it from his days as a smuggler.

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

6. What do Oply's Chapter 8 remarks about a ring, a honeymoon, and a dress reveal?
(a) She has been plotting to marry Tom all along.
(b) She has more expensive tastes than Tom can support.
(c) She expects Tom to obtain these things honestly.
(d) She is not interested in the trappings of a traditional wedding.

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

8. What new claim about his employment does Ned make in Chapter 8?
(a) The Queen has employed him to keep Cecilia away from Morvath.
(b) Parliament has employed him to spy on Morvath.
(c) Captain Morvath has employed him to kill Cecilia.
(d) Miss Darlington has employed him as Cecilia's bodyguard.

9. What is the title of the poem that Cecilia is reading aloud in the book's opening?
(a) The Fall of Ninevah.
(b) The Song of Hiawatha.
(c) The Wanderings of Oisin.
(d) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.

10. Which name does Ned use when he offers his services as an assassin to Lady Armitage?
(a) Teddy Luxe.
(b) Duarte Leveport.
(c) Eduardo de Luca.
(d) Captain Smith.

11. Whom does Miss Darlington suspect of being behind the butler's theft of the house?
(a) Patrick Morvath.
(b) Eduardo de Luca.
(c) Lady Armitage.
(d) Frederick Bassingthwaite.

12. Why does Miss Darlington tell Cecilia to find out if the teahouse has a library?
(a) The women are going to discuss Cecilia's promotion to senior status.
(b) The women are going to talk about Morvath.
(c) She knows that Cecilia needs to replace her copy of Wuthering Heights.
(d) She knows that Cecilia is uncomfortable with Jane Fairweather.

13. The rumor that Verisimilitude Jones is so old that she once stole a cake from Marie Antoinette contains examples of which techniques?
(a) Foreshadowing and equivocation.
(b) Hyperbole and allusion.
(c) Allusion and foreshadowing.
(d) Equivocation and hyperbole.

14. What does Miss Darlington's irritation when Ned knocks at their door reveal about Miss Darlington?
(a) She has very rigid ideas about etiquette.
(b) She is often ill-tempered in the morning.
(c) She is reclusive and dislikes receiving visitors.
(d) She is suspicious of anyone who tries to call on Cecilia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, what does Cecilia seem to find indecent about Ned's waistcoat?

2. What is The Mysteries of Udolpho?

3. Where is Cecilia's mother?

4. On page 78, what criticism does Miss Darlington make of Miss Brown's language when they are just outside the Ancient Mariner?

5. What does Cecilia threaten to stab Ned with in Chapter 1?

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