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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Alex carry his portrait of Cilla?
(a) In a ring.
(b) In his coat pocket.
(c) Tattooed on his arm.
(d) In a pocket watch.

2. In Chapter 18, what surprising information does Cecilia get about Miss Darlington?
(a) She deliberately let herself get captured.
(b) She is Morvath's mother.
(c) She plans to kill Lady Armitage.
(d) She is not biologically related to Cecilia.

3. What are the "tiny white wishes" that Cecilia is focused on in the scene at Greenwich with her mother (195)?
(a) Apple blossoms.
(b) Dandelion fluff.
(c) Lily petals.
(d) Clover flowers.

4. In Chapter 12, what solution does Cecilia offer to the problem of the patriarchy?
(a) Women's suffrage.
(b) Education for women.
(c) Getting rid of men entirely.
(d) Replacing it with matriarchy.

5. What does Ned surprise Cecilia by revealing when they are arguing about her father in the morning at The Knowles hotel?
(a) He is related to her father's adoptive family.
(b) He once kissed Oply.
(c) He once met her mother.
(d) He is a member of the queen's secret service.

6. What threat do Cecilia, Ned, and Lady Armitage use against Jacobsen to get him to reveal information about Morvath's location?
(a) They threaten to lock him in a room with Lady Armitage's cats.
(b) They threaten to shoot him in the shoulder again.
(c) They threaten him with seduction by Lady Armitage.
(d) They threaten to tell Morvath that Jacobsen has betrayed him.

7. Who appears at Lady Armitage's house when she is expecting Ned in Chapter 12?
(a) Alex.
(b) Morvath.
(c) Jacobsen.
(d) Randall.

8. 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 Cecila is walking into a deathtrao,
(b) He knows that Morvath has laid landmines around Northangerland Abbey.
(c) He knows that it is likely that the Wisteria Society women are dead.
(d) He is concerned that the abbey's stabilizing magic will affect Darlington House.

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

10. On page 244, what does Cecilia say she is doing when she draws a gun on Ned? ed asks Cecila whether she is jikacking the house
(a) She is "hijacking" her own life.
(b) She expects "more cheerful compliance" from Ned.
(c) She finds the situation "regrettable."
(d) She intends to "extract a confession" from Ned.

11. What did Cilla ask Ned to promise her?
(a) That he would escort Cecilia safely to Miss Darlington.
(b) That he would make the world safer for Cecilia.
(c) That he would avenge his mother someday.
(d) That he would help her escape from her husband.

12. Who is the dark figure that Cecilia and Ned notice creeping through the woods and both jump out to confront?
(a) Morvath.
(b) Jacobsen.
(c) Lady Armitage.
(d) Alex.

13. How does Oply get Tom onto the London-bound train?
(a) She tells him she sees Ned inside the train.
(b) She fakes a purse snatching.
(c) She threatens him with a knife.
(d) She drugs him.

14. What does Cecilia see when she first opens her eyes in her childhood bedroom?
(a) The cockatiel wallpaper.
(b) Ned Lightbourne.
(c) Frederick Bassingthwaite.
(d) A portrait of her mother.

15. Where does Cecilia find the copy of Wuthering Heights she steals in Chapter 11?
(a) Behind some Bibles at the Young Women's Christian Association reading room.
(b) In the baggage left inside the carriage she and Ned stole.
(c) In the saddlebag of one of the horses she steals from the hotel stable.
(d) Behind a canister of tea in The Knowles hotel kitchen.

Short Answer Questions

1. The title of Chapter 11, "...The Senselessness and Insensibility of Reading Wuthering Heights...." is an example of which technique?

2. In Chapter 11, what causes Ned to suggest that it would be better to take the carriage than ride the horses that Cecilia has procured?

3. What book of Cecilia's did Morvath burn when she was a child?

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

5. When Frederick catches sight of Cecilia's leg, with whose great beauty does he favorably compare Cecilia's?

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