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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. How has Lady Armitage prepared in advance for a possible attempt to steal her house?
(a) She has disassembled the house's steering mechanism.
(b) The house's steering mechanism is locked and the key is well hidden.
(c) There is a hidden trap awaiting anyone who approaches the wheelhouse.
(d) One of her housemaids is waiting in the wheelhouse with a gun.

2. In Chapter 20, what does Cecilia wait to see before giving the order to turn the house around?
(a) The queen's soldiers beginning to withdraw.
(b) Her father's fiery death.
(c) Alex and Jane landing their houses.
(d) Miss Darlington outside the abbey.

3. In Chapter 19, what royal occasion does the queen decide to invite Miss Darlington to?
(a) Her Jubilee Banquet.
(b) Princess Alice's wedding.
(c) Prince Edward's birthday.
(d) A garden party.

4. When Pleasance smells smoke and realizes that fire might be on its way, what is her first thought?
(a) She must get Miss Darlington to a safer location.
(b) She needs to get a message to either Ned or Cecilia.
(c) The abbey is not the place she wants to haunt after her death.
(d) Dying in a fire is a suitably gothic ending for her life.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The title of Chapter 11, "...The Senselessness and Insensibility of Reading Wuthering Heights...." is an example of which technique?

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

3. What does Cecilia see when she first opens her eyes in her childhood bedroom?

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

5. Where does Cecilia find the copy of Wuthering Heights she steals in Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. When the guard catches Ned and Cecilia in the gallery, what does Ned chat to the guard about, and what is the real purpose of his commentary?

4. What is so upsetting to Ned about Cecilia's "defensive tones" when she is talking about her paternal heritage (128)?

5. When Cecilia wakes in Northangerland Abbey, what evidence does she consider for and against Ned's involvement with her father?

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

7. When Ned realizes that Cecilia has a hangover, how does he explain it to her, and why?

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

9. When they are in the secret garden and Cecilia disappears into Millie's house to get a ladder, what mystifies her about Ned's reaction?

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

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