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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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 Wisteria Society will be able to escape, 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 abbey will not be able to fly, now.

5. How has Lady Armitage prepared in advance for a possible attempt to steal her house?
(a) The house's steering mechanism is locked and the key is well hidden.
(b) One of her housemaids is waiting in the wheelhouse with a gun.
(c) There is a hidden trap awaiting anyone who approaches the wheelhouse.
(d) She has disassembled the house's steering mechanism.

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

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

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

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

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

11. 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 intends to "extract a confession" from Ned.
(c) She expects "more cheerful compliance" from Ned.
(d) She finds the situation "regrettable."

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

13. In Chapter 18, whom does Morvath learn might be his father?
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Otto von Bismark.
(c) Prince Albert.
(d) Louis Pasteur.

14. Where is Morvath's house moored when Cecilia and Ned go looking for it in Chapter 13?
(a) Blackdown Hills.
(b) Mayfair.
(c) Lyme Regis.
(d) Bath.

15. On page 174, what word does Queen Victoria's parrot squawk at Oply and Tom when they first enter the Queen's bedroom?
(a) "Brigands!"
(b) "Thief!"
(c) "Assassin!"
(d) "Pirates!"

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the dark figure that Cecilia and Ned notice creeping through the woods and both jump out to confront?

2. When Tom looks at himself in the clothing shop, whom does he realize Oply has dressed him to look like?

3. 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?

4. What small building do Ned and Cecilia see fly past Darlington House while they are arguing about landing?

5. What is the rhetorical purpose of Cecilia's misunderstanding of the word "protection" during her intimate encounter with Ned?

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