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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does Ned give Cecilia for knowing the area of Sidmouth well?
(a) Sidmouth is where his house was located when it was pushed off a cliff.
(b) He knows it from his days as a smuggler.
(c) Sidmouth is where he grew up.
(d) He knows it from an undercover job as a village butcher.

2. What does Cecilia mean when she tells Ned that "for an Italian, you have a remarkably Etonian accent" (30)?
(a) She dislikes Italians and thinks the way they speak is comical.
(b) She knows that Ned is from Northern England, not Italy.
(c) She thinks that Ned is trying to disguise his Italian accent.
(d) She suspects Ned of being a well-educated, upper-class Englishman.

3. What figure of speech is present in the phrase "winter dreamed in her eyes" (3)?
(a) Personification.
(b) Simile.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Epigram.

4. What does Miss Darlington tell Cecilia the government's reason is for persecuting pirates?
(a) Misogyny.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Greed.
(d) Fear.

5. Whom does Ned tell Cecilia is the traitor within the Wisteria Society?
(a) Mrs. Rotunder.
(b) Miss Fairweather.
(c) Miss Brown.
(d) Mrs. Eames.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, what does Cecilia seem to find indecent about Ned's waistcoat?

2. Why does Ned propose to take Cecilia to Lady Armitage's house?

3. Who fires shots at Darlington House as it comes in for a landing in Ottery St. Mary?

4. What does Jane imply is unladylike about Oply?

5. When Ned is trying to decide what Cecilia's nickname should be, to what flower does he compare her?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 4, why does Miss Darlington suddenly bring the house into town to pick up Cecilia?

2. What does Cecilia understand about Miss Brown's nighttime encounter with Tom Eames that Miss Brown herself fails to understand?

3. In Chapter 8, what plan for Cecilia does Morvath reveal to Ned, and what motivates Morvath's plan?

4. What is unusual about Pleasance's mental state?

5. What does Cecilia hope will happen when she tells the Wisteria Society women about Lady Armitage's assassination attempt, and what actually happens?

6. How is Miss Darlington's Chapter 4 reaction to Cecilia walking two miles typical of her treatment of Cecilia in general?

7. What is ironic about the Wisteria Society's motto and their activities at the meeting that Cecila and Miss Darlington walk into at the beginning of Chapter 6?

8. How many husbands has Lady Armitage had, and what are their fates?

9. What is really happening as Cecilia views herself as "calm, impassive, undisturbed by fears" at dinner?

10. What is the fate of the book of Wordsworth poems that Cecilia is reading while she drives the carriage in Chapter 9?

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