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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 claps a hand over her mouth and refuses to let her speak.
(c) He overturns the teapot and floods the table with tea.
(d) He pretends to be choking on a kipper.

2. Where is Lady Armitage spend time walking while she waits for Ned in Chapter 12?
(a) In a municipal garden.
(b) In a Lyme Regis museum.
(c) Along the seaside.
(d) Through the woods.

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

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

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

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

7. What book of Cecilia's did Morvath burn when she was a child?
(a) A book of Wordsworth's poems.
(b) A math textbook.
(c) Wuthering Heights.
(d) Her personal journal.

8. 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.

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

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

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

12. When, in Chapter 11, Ned introduces himself to Cecilia as "Ned Lightbourne...Captain of Her Majesty's secret police brigade," how is Cecila's reaction best described?
(a) She finds it reassuring.
(b) She finds it comical.
(c) She finds it hard to believe.
(d) She finds it romantic.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 13, what evidence does Lady Armitage offer Ned and Cecilia that Morvath's hideout is nearby?

3. What object does Jane Fairweather attack Ned with as they leave the secret passage?

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

5. In Chapter 18, what surprising information does Cecilia get about Miss Darlington?

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