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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. Where does Alex carry his portrait of Cilla?
(a) In a ring.
(b) Tattooed on his arm.
(c) In his coat pocket.
(d) In a pocket watch.

2. Who is the dark figure that Cecilia and Ned notice creeping through the woods and both jump out to confront?
(a) Lady Armitage.
(b) Jacobsen.
(c) Alex.
(d) Morvath.

3. What does Cecilia throw at Morvath's feet in Chapter 18?
(a) A mathematics textbook.
(b) A smoke bomb.
(c) Her copy of Wuthering Heights.
(d) The dagger he gave her as a child.

4. After dinner in Chapter 13, what suspicion does Ned share with Cecilia?
(a) He suspects that Lady Armitage has betrayed them to Morvath.
(b) He suspects that Jacobsen intentionally let himself be captured.
(c) He suspects that Lady Armitage is scheming to marry him.
(d) He suspects that Jacobsen has lied to them about Morvath's location.

5. What threat does Morvath use to try to make Cecilia leave the secret passage?
(a) He will kill Ned as soon as he finds them.
(b) He will starve Cecilia when he finally recaptures her.
(c) He will lock Cecilia in the tower with Frederick.
(d) He will begin killing the Wisteria Society members.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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

3. On page 175, what does Queen Victoria ask Oply as soon as Oply mentions Captain Morvath?

4. When Cecilia first sees her father and thinks of the day her mother died, this is an example of which plot device?

5. Where is Morvath's house moored when Cecilia and Ned go looking for it in Chapter 13?

Short Essay Questions

1. What comparison does Alex make between Cecilia and her mother, and what is Cecilia's reaction?

2. What startling claim does Lady Armitage make about pneumonia in Chapter 13, and what related critique of Miss Darlington does she make?

3. What is Oply's strategy for getting her way with Tom?

4. What is happening when Ned and Cecilia argue about Ned intruding on Lady Armitage's "intimate presence," and what is their argument really about (144)?

5. What is Cecilia's reasoning for suggesting that she and Ned spend some time alone in her bedroom before they rejoin the rest of the Wisteria Society?

6. What is the surface content of Jane and Cecilia's first conversation in Morvath's breakfast room, and what is their real purpose underneath this surface?

7. As Pleasance cares for the wounded Miss Darlington, how does their exchange about tea reveal both Miss Darlington's affection for Pleasance and the class divide between the two women?

8. When Cecilia and Ned are in the portrait gallery and she announces her plan to kill Morvath, what does Ned tell her?

9. Where are the queen and Oply at the beginning of Chapter 19, and what are they doing?

10. What does Ned tell Cecilia right before he kisses her in the broom closet, and how does she respond?

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