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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Ned is trying to catch Cecilia in the portrait gallery, what does he reveal to her?
(a) He is in love with her.
(b) Morvath killed his mother.
(c) He is an agent of the queen.
(d) His real name is not Ned.

2. How does Ned stop Cecilia from confiding her rescue plan to Miss Fairweather?
(a) He overturns the teapot and floods the table with tea.
(b) He throws a dagger into the wall behind her.
(c) He claps a hand over her mouth and refuses to let her speak.
(d) He pretends to be choking on a kipper.

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

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

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

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

7. What object does Jane Fairweather attack Ned with as they leave the secret passage?
(a) A sword.
(b) A whiskey bottle.
(c) A butter knife.
(d) A cushion.

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

9. On page 175, what does Queen Victoria ask Oply as soon as Oply mentions Captain Morvath?
(a) "Where is the villain?"
(b) "Who is Captain Morvath?"
(c) "I could have been a pirate, myself."
(d) "Does dear Ned know of this?"

10. 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 is a member of the queen's secret service.
(c) He once kissed Oply.
(d) He once met her mother.

11. What does Miss Darlington mean when, on page 223, she tells Cecilia "Plan B"?
(a) Cecilia should stab Morvath.
(b) Cecilia should call for help.
(c) Cecilia should run away.
(d) Cecilia should pretend to agree with Morvath.

12. 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) Dying in a fire is a suitably gothic ending for her life.
(d) She needs to get a message to either Ned or Cecilia.

13. What is the rhetorical purpose of Cecilia's misunderstanding of the word "protection" during her intimate encounter with Ned?
(a) It demonstrates her naivete about sexual matters.
(b) It characterizes her as prudish about language.
(c) It hints that she still does not trust Ned completely.
(d) It foreshadows Cecilia's intention to leave Ned.

14. What does Ned feel self-conscious about once he and Cecilia are in Cecilia's bedroom?
(a) The portrait of Cilla.
(b) The immaculate cleanliness.
(c) Cecilia's childhood dolls.
(d) The overly feminine decor.

15. 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 the abbey will not be able to fly, now.
(b) She knows that this is where her father is hiding.
(c) She knows that this is where the abbey's ammunition is.
(d) She knows that the Wisteria Society will be able to escape, now.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom do the portraits in the gallery depict?

2. At the end of Chapter 13, what causes Ned to realize that he and Cecilia are in danger?

3. What did Cilla ask Ned to promise her?

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

5. What does Cecilia tell Frederick she plans to use the secret passage to do?

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