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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 excuse does Lady Armitage give for her difficulties in flying her house?
(a) The wind patterns over England have become strange and unpredictable.
(b) Her lady's maid, who assists her with navigation, is distracted by a romance with a local librarian.
(c) Her original house burned down in a battle, and she is not yet used to flying the new one.
(d) She is so smart that her mind overpowers the flying incantation.

2. What is Jane constantly reading throughout Chapters 6 and 7?
(a) Wuthering Heights.
(b) A book of war poems.
(c) Jane Eyre.
(d) A book of Wordsworth poems.

3. What does Cecilia have for the first time at the hotel?
(a) Rum.
(b) Wine.
(c) Kidney pie.
(d) Oysters.

4. When Cecilia goes outside to get some fresh air during the Chapter 6 Wisteria Society meeting, what does she discover is happening?
(a) Tom Eames is listening at the window of Mrs. Rotunder's house.
(b) Ned is helping Morvath steal Miss Dole's house.
(c) All of the Wisteria Society husbands are meeting at Miss Brown's house.
(d) Mrs. Rotunder's butler is meeting with a mysterious cloaked man.

5. What new claim about his employment does Ned make in Chapter 8?
(a) Miss Darlington has employed him as Cecilia's bodyguard.
(b) Captain Morvath has employed him to kill Cecilia.
(c) Parliament has employed him to spy on Morvath.
(d) The Queen has employed him to keep Cecilia away from Morvath.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Cecilia's mother?

2. How did Morvath's adoptive parents die?

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

4. What is The Mysteries of Udolpho?

5. On page 28, the text refers to nuns who are "made mad" by the songs of "selkies." What is a "selkie"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Morvath's plan for England?

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

3. What kind of a relationship do Ned and Alex seem to have, and how does the reader know this?

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

5. Who is Cecilia's father, and why does Cecilia read Bronte novels in hopes of understanding him better?

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

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

8. What are the two competing stories that Ned has heard about Morvath's marriage to Cilla?

9. What is ironic about the Chapter 1 conversation about Miss Darlington's concerns over how she would have handled Ned had he tried to break in when she was alone in the house?

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

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