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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. 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?
(a) She finds it reassuring.
(b) She finds it romantic.
(c) She finds it hard to believe.
(d) She finds it comical.

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

3. What threat do Cecilia, Ned, and Lady Armitage use against Jacobsen to get him to reveal information about Morvath's location?
(a) They threaten to shoot him in the shoulder again.
(b) They threaten him with seduction by Lady Armitage.
(c) They threaten to tell Morvath that Jacobsen has betrayed him.
(d) They threaten to lock him in a room with Lady Armitage's cats.

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

5. What small building do Ned and Cecilia see fly past Darlington House while they are arguing about landing?
(a) A chicken coop.
(b) A garden shed.
(c) A boat house.
(d) A private chapel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cecilia throw at Morvath's feet in Chapter 18?

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

3. What does Cecilia hope to find when she is searching through her childhood dolls?

4. When Cecilia first sees her father and thinks of the day her mother died, this is an example of which plot device?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Morvath kill Ned's mother?

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. 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)?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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