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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 do Tom and Oply pretend that they are bringing to Queen Victoria?
(a) Parrot food.
(b) A telegram.
(c) Clean linen.
(d) Toast.

2. When Cecilia interrupts Frederick's "effusions," what is she interrupting (180)?
(a) His boring reminiscences about his childhood.
(b) His embarrassing oversharing about his health.
(c) His bitter critique of her father.
(d) His unrestrained expression of feeling.

3. In the breakfast room of Northangerland Abbey, what is Cecilia's response to her father's greeting?
(a) She draws a small knife and tries to stab him.
(b) She faints and falls to the floor.
(c) She begins to throw everything within reach at him.
(d) She cries and runs to Ned for comfort.

4. What is the rhetorical purpose of Cecilia's misunderstanding of the word "protection" during her intimate encounter with Ned?
(a) It characterizes her as prudish about language.
(b) It demonstrates her naivete about sexual matters.
(c) It foreshadows Cecilia's intention to leave Ned.
(d) It hints that she still does not trust Ned completely.

5. How has Lady Armitage prepared in advance for a possible attempt to steal her house?
(a) The house's steering mechanism is locked and the key is well hidden.
(b) There is a hidden trap awaiting anyone who approaches the wheelhouse.
(c) She has disassembled the house's steering mechanism.
(d) One of her housemaids is waiting in the wheelhouse with a gun.

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides tea and cookies, what does Lady Armitage need a constant supply of while she waits for Ned to appear?

2. When Cecilia thinks that Ned looks "like a flower luring victims into its poisonous core," what two techniques are being used (193)?

3. The title of Chapter 11, "...The Senselessness and Insensibility of Reading Wuthering Heights...." is an example of which technique?

4. In Chapter 18, what surprising information does Cecilia get about Miss Darlington?

5. On page 175, what does Queen Victoria ask Oply as soon as Oply mentions Captain Morvath?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. 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?

5. What does Ned tell Cecilia right before he kisses her in the broom closet, and how does she respond?

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 the place in the abbey where the Wisteria Society battlehouses have been moored.

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

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

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

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