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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 needs to get a message to either Ned or Cecilia.
(c) She must get Miss Darlington to a safer location.
(d) Dying in a fire is a suitably gothic ending for her life.

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

3. 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) Hyperbole and personification.
(c) Metonymy and hyperbole.
(d) Simile and metonymy.

4. The title of Chapter 11, "...The Senselessness and Insensibility of Reading Wuthering Heights...." is an example of which technique?
(a) Allusion.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Alliteration.

5. What are the women of the Wisteria Society doing at the beginning of Chapter 18, while Cecilia stands watch at the door?
(a) Making weapons.
(b) Arguing about battle tactics.
(c) Studying a map of the abbey.
(d) Looking for more suitable clothing.

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

7. 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?
(a) He thinks that leaving the carriage behind will draw attention to them.
(b) He thinks that it is more appropriate and ladylike for Cecilia to ride in a carriage.
(c) He is worried that Cecilia is too dizzy to safely ride.
(d) He is bothered that Cecilia is the one who thought to steal some horses.

8. What is the fate of the small building Morvath is flying?
(a) It hits one of the battlehouses.
(b) The queen has it shot down.
(c) It collides with a hill and explodes.
(d) It falls into the English channel,

9. What small building do Ned and Cecilia see fly past Darlington House while they are arguing about landing?
(a) A garden shed.
(b) A private chapel.
(c) A chicken coop.
(d) A boat house.

10. In Chapter 20, what does Cecilia wait to see before giving the order to turn the house around?
(a) Alex and Jane landing their houses.
(b) The queen's soldiers beginning to withdraw.
(c) Miss Darlington outside the abbey.
(d) Her father's fiery death.

11. When Cecilia first sees her father and thinks of the day her mother died, this is an example of which plot device?
(a) Cliffhanger.
(b) Reversal.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Flashback.

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

13. After dinner in Chapter 13, what suspicion does Ned share with Cecilia?
(a) He suspects that Jacobsen has lied to them about Morvath's location.
(b) He suspects that Jacobsen intentionally let himself be captured.
(c) He suspects that Lady Armitage has betrayed them to Morvath.
(d) He suspects that Lady Armitage is scheming to marry him.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ned feel self-conscious about once he and Cecilia are in Cecilia's bedroom?

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

3. On page 175, what does Queen Victoria ask Oply as soon as Oply mentions Captain Morvath?

4. At the beginning of Chapter 20, what does the narrator say Ned would refuse to do if he could live his life over again?

5. Why does Ned question Cecilia's order to land the house after she blows a hold in the abbey's west wing?

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