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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. Where does Cecilia find the copy of Wuthering Heights she steals in Chapter 11?
(a) Behind a canister of tea in The Knowles hotel kitchen.
(b) Behind some Bibles at the Young Women's Christian Association reading room.
(c) In the saddlebag of one of the horses she steals from the hotel stable.
(d) In the baggage left inside the carriage she and Ned stole.

2. When Cecilia thinks that Ned looks "like a flower luring victims into its poisonous core," what two techniques are being used (193)?
(a) Personification and simile.
(b) Metonymy and hyperbole.
(c) Hyperbole and personification.
(d) Simile and metonymy.

3. 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 diamond bracelet.
(b) A dagger.
(c) A toy dog.
(d) An ice cream.

4. How does Oply get Tom onto the London-bound train?
(a) She drugs him.
(b) She fakes a purse snatching.
(c) She threatens him with a knife.
(d) She tells him she sees Ned inside the train.

5. What book of Cecilia's did Morvath burn when she was a child?
(a) Wuthering Heights.
(b) A book of Wordsworth's poems.
(c) A math textbook.
(d) Her personal journal.

Short Answer Questions

1. When, in Chapter 11, Ned introduces himself to Cecilia as "Ned Lightbourne...Captain of Her Majesty's secret police brigade," how is Cecila's reaction best described?

2. Who unexpectedly shows up while Ned and Cecilia are talking in the portrait gallery?

3. 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?

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

5. In Chapter 13, what evidence does Lady Armitage offer Ned and Cecilia that Morvath's hideout is nearby?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. 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?

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

8. 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?

9. 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?

10. 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?

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