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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 is the fate of the small building Morvath is flying?
(a) It collides with a hill and explodes.
(b) It falls into the English channel,
(c) It hits one of the battlehouses.
(d) The queen has it shot down.

2. When Lady Armitage is thinking about Ned presenting her with Cecilia's finger or ear, what does she remember Cecilia once giving her?
(a) A toy dog.
(b) A diamond bracelet.
(c) An ice cream.
(d) A dagger.

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

4. 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) Miss Darlington outside the abbey.
(d) Alex and Jane landing their houses.

5. Who surprises Lady Armitage by bringing in tea in the place of her butler?
(a) Morvath.
(b) Jacobsen.
(c) Ned.
(d) Cecilia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Ned stop Cecilia from confiding her rescue plan to Miss Fairweather?

3. When Frederick tries to assert his status over Ned, what new identity does Ned reveal?

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

5. 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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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