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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 does Ned stop Cecilia from confiding her rescue plan to Miss Fairweather?
(a) He throws a dagger into the wall behind her.
(b) He claps a hand over her mouth and refuses to let her speak.
(c) He overturns the teapot and floods the table with tea.
(d) He pretends to be choking on a kipper.

2. What technique is evidence in Ned's thought that there is "a wind-colored silence" in Cecilia's eyes (128)?
(a) Personification.
(b) Synesthesia.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Malapropism.

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

4. In Chapter 13, what evidence does Lady Armitage offer Ned and Cecilia that Morvath's hideout is nearby?
(a) Vibrations.
(b) Gunshots.
(c) Smoke.
(d) Bird calls.

5. On page 150, why does Cecilia think it would be better to stab Ned than to slap him?
(a) It would make more of a mess in Lady Armitage's parlor.
(b) It would be better for her reputation.
(c) It would more accurately convey her feelings.
(d) It would mean she could nurse him back to health.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jane say Miss Darlington treats Cecilia like?

2. How has Lady Armitage prepared in advance for a possible attempt to steal her house?

3. What does Miss Darlington mean when, on page 223, she tells Cecilia "Plan B"?

4. When Cecilia interrupts Frederick's "effusions," what is she interrupting (180)?

5. When Cecilia, Ned, and Lady Armitage are talking in the woods during the scouting mission in Chapter 13, what does Ned begin to suspect Cecilia is planning?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. In what way were Cilla's and Patrick's parenting styles ill-suited to Cecilia's temperament?

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

6. 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?

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

8. Why did Morvath kill Ned's mother?

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

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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