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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 does Ned feel self-conscious about once he and Cecilia are in Cecilia's bedroom?
(a) The portrait of Cilla.
(b) The overly feminine decor.
(c) The immaculate cleanliness.
(d) Cecilia's childhood dolls.

2. On page 174, what word does Queen Victoria's parrot squawk at Oply and Tom when they first enter the Queen's bedroom?
(a) "Assassin!"
(b) "Thief!"
(c) "Brigands!"
(d) "Pirates!"

3. Where is Morvath's house moored when Cecilia and Ned go looking for it in Chapter 13?
(a) Mayfair.
(b) Lyme Regis.
(c) Bath.
(d) Blackdown Hills.

4. What are the women of the Wisteria Society doing at the beginning of Chapter 18, while Cecilia stands watch at the door?
(a) Arguing about battle tactics.
(b) Making weapons.
(c) Looking for more suitable clothing.
(d) Studying a map of the abbey.

5. In Chapter 18, what surprising information does Cecilia get about Miss Darlington?
(a) She deliberately let herself get captured.
(b) She is not biologically related to Cecilia.
(c) She is Morvath's mother.
(d) She plans to kill Lady Armitage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom do the portraits in the gallery depict?

2. What are the "tiny white wishes" that Cecilia is focused on in the scene at Greenwich with her mother (195)?

3. When Tom looks at himself in the clothing shop, whom does he realize Oply has dressed him to look like?

4. In Chapter 19, what royal occasion does the queen decide to invite Miss Darlington to?

5. Just as Pleasance makes it to the bedroom door, pulling Miss Darlington on a blanket, who breaks open the door and enters the room?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. 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?

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

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

6. What is ironic about Cecilia's concern for Miss Fairweather in the scene in the breakfast room at Northangerland Abbey?

7. 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)?

8. What daydream of Ned's makes it clear that he is not fully paying attention to what Cecilia is telling him about their future?

9. Describe the place in the abbey where the Wisteria Society battlehouses have been moored.

10. What running joke about Jacobsen's name is introduced in Chapter 12, and what motif is this joke a part of?

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