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

2. At the beginning of Chapter 20, what does the narrator say Ned would refuse to do if he could live his life over again?
(a) Allow his house to be pushed from a cliff.
(b) Read Morvath's writing.
(c) Eat kippers.
(d) Accept the contract on Cecilia's life.

3. What does Ned surprise Cecilia by revealing when they are arguing about her father in the morning at The Knowles hotel?
(a) He is related to her father's adoptive family.
(b) He once met her mother.
(c) He once kissed Oply.
(d) He is a member of the queen's secret service.

4. In Chapter 11, what causes Ned to suggest that it would be better to take the carriage than ride the horses that Cecilia has procured?
(a) He thinks that it is more appropriate and ladylike for Cecilia to ride in a carriage.
(b) He is bothered that Cecilia is the one who thought to steal some horses.
(c) He is worried that Cecilia is too dizzy to safely ride.
(d) He thinks that leaving the carriage behind will draw attention to them.

5. Where is Lady Armitage spend time walking while she waits for Ned in Chapter 12?
(a) Through the woods.
(b) In a municipal garden.
(c) In a Lyme Regis museum.
(d) Along the seaside.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who surprises Lady Armitage by bringing in tea in the place of her butler?

2. What do Tom and Oply pretend that they are bringing to Queen Victoria?

3. When Ned is trying to catch Cecilia in the portrait gallery, what does he reveal to her?

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

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

6. Describe Queen Victoria as she appears in this text.

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

8. What is the rhetorical function of the extended description of the dinner that Ned, Cecilia, and Lady Armitage prepare in Chapter 13?

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

10. What precaution does Ned take so that Lady Armitage will not be aware of his and Cecilia's scouting mission in Chapter 13, and how does Lady Armitage evade his plans?

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