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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Cecilia relieved when she manages to shoot a cannonball that takes out a corner of the west wing of the abbey?
(a) She knows that this is where her father is hiding.
(b) She knows that the Wisteria Society will be able to escape, now.
(c) She knows that the abbey will not be able to fly, now.
(d) She knows that this is where the abbey's ammunition is.

2. What do Queen Victoria's remarks about Ned cause Oply to realize?
(a) Ned might be a danger to Cecilia.
(b) The Queen dislikes Ned intensely.
(c) Ned has yet another secret identity.
(d) The Queen has no idea who Ned really is.

3. What does Cecilia tell Frederick she plans to use the secret passage to do?
(a) Escape Norhtangerland Abbey.
(b) Find and kill her father.
(c) Find and rescue her aunt.
(d) Find and kill Ned Lightbourne.

4. When Frederick catches sight of Cecilia's leg, with whose great beauty does he favorably compare Cecilia's?
(a) His sister's.
(b) His first wife's.
(c) Cleopatra's.
(d) Helen of Troy's.

5. On page 243, what does Ned say when he sees the building Morvath is flying explode?
(a) "Sloppy navigation, Morvath."
(b) "It's more than I could ask for."
(c) "We got you justice, Mama."
(d) "What goes up must come down."

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

7. What threat does Morvath use to try to make Cecilia leave the secret passage?
(a) He will lock Cecilia in the tower with Frederick.
(b) He will starve Cecilia when he finally recaptures her.
(c) He will kill Ned as soon as he finds them.
(d) He will begin killing the Wisteria Society members.

8. In the breakfast room of Northangerland Abbey, what is Cecilia's response to her father's greeting?
(a) She faints and falls to the floor.
(b) She begins to throw everything within reach at him.
(c) She cries and runs to Ned for comfort.
(d) She draws a small knife and tries to stab him.

9. At the beginning of Chapter 20, what does the narrator say Ned would refuse to do if he could live his life over again?
(a) Eat kippers.
(b) Read Morvath's writing.
(c) Allow his house to be pushed from a cliff.
(d) Accept the contract on Cecilia's life.

10. What does Cecilia hope to find when she is searching through her childhood dolls?
(a) Poison.
(b) A key.
(c) A photograph.
(d) A weapon.

11. What technique is evidence in Ned's thought that there is "a wind-colored silence" in Cecilia's eyes (128)?
(a) Synesthesia.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Malapropism.
(d) Personification.

12. Why does Ned question Cecilia's order to land the house after she blows a hold in the abbey's west wing?
(a) He is concerned that the abbey's stabilizing magic will affect Darlington House.
(b) He is concerned that Cecila is walking into a deathtrao,
(c) He knows that it is likely that the Wisteria Society women are dead.
(d) He knows that Morvath has laid landmines around Northangerland Abbey.

13. Whose "high, fine voice" do Ned and Cecilia unexpectedly hear while they are in the secret passage (209)?
(a) Jane Fairweather's.
(b) Miss Brown's.
(c) Lady Armitage's.
(d) Miss Darlington's.

14. When Pleasance smells smoke and realizes that fire might be on its way, what is her first thought?
(a) The abbey is not the place she wants to haunt after her death.
(b) She must get Miss Darlington to a safer location.
(c) She needs to get a message to either Ned or Cecilia.
(d) Dying in a fire is a suitably gothic ending for her life.

15. On page 150, why does Cecilia think it would be better to stab Ned than to slap him?
(a) It would be better for her reputation.
(b) It would more accurately convey her feelings.
(c) It would mean she could nurse him back to health.
(d) It would make more of a mess in Lady Armitage's parlor.

Short Answer Questions

1. On page 174, what word does Queen Victoria's parrot squawk at Oply and Tom when they first enter the Queen's bedroom?

2. What does Cecilia see when she first opens her eyes in her childhood bedroom?

3. From whom do Ned and Cecilia hide in a broom closet on their way out of the hotel?

4. When Ned is daydreaming about marrying Cecilia, what do both his imagined wedding location and honeymoon location have in common?

5. Where does Alex carry his portrait of Cilla?

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