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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. Whom does Miss Darlington suspect of being behind the butler's theft of the house?
(a) Eduardo de Luca.
(b) Frederick Bassingthwaite.
(c) Lady Armitage.
(d) Patrick Morvath.

2. Who is Black Beryl?
(a) One of Miss Darlington's sworn enemies.
(b) One of the ghosts that haunts Pleasance.
(c) The person who discovered the flight incantation.
(d) The founder of the Wisteria Society.

3. What technique is used when the title of Chapter 5 mentions "The End of Wuthering Heights" (45)?
(a) Tautology.
(b) Paronomasia.
(c) Encomium.
(d) Synesthesia.

4. When Darlington House lifts off in Chapter 4, what dangerous thing happens to Cecilia?
(a) She is nearly struck by a bullet coming through the parlor window.
(b) She is nearly struck by a flying portrait of Black Beryl.
(c) She is nearly hit in the head with a heavy crystal bowl.
(d) She nearly falls from the house while it is in flight.

5. Who fires shots at Darlington House as it comes in for a landing in Ottery St. Mary?
(a) Jane Fairweather.
(b) Patrick Morvath.
(c) Constantinopla Brown.
(d) Ned Lightbourne.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Cecilia's mother?

2. What fake names does Ned give for himself and Cecilia at the hotel?

3. What technique is used when Cecilia says that "Night is like the underskin of a poem" (121)?

4. What reason does Ned give Cecilia for knowing the area of Sidmouth well?

5. What unusual weapon did Mrs. Rotunder employ in her recent assassination attempt against Miss Darlington?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. Where does Ned first lie down to sleep, and why does he quickly move to sleep elsewhere?

5. What details of Ned's appearance in Chapter 1 cause Cecilia to assume that he is a pirate?

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

7. Why is Cecilia excited to learn that she is the target of an assassination attempt?

8. What does Cecilia think is ironic about servants being allowed to fly houses?

9. What is the history of Cecilia's relationship with Jane Fairweather?

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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