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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Whose idea is it to have tea in Ottery St. Mary?
2. What does Tom find out about Oply in Chapter 8?
3. When Cecilia goes outside to get some fresh air during the Chapter 6 Wisteria Society meeting, what does she discover is happening?
4. What book does Cecilia take with her on her walk to the library?
5. What do Oply's Chapter 8 remarks about a ring, a honeymoon, and a dress reveal?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is paradoxical about Lady Armitage's attitude toward Cecilia in Chapter 2?
2. Who is Cecilia's father, and why does Cecilia read Bronte novels in hopes of understanding him better?
3. Where does Ned first lie down to sleep, and why does he quickly move to sleep elsewhere?
4. What is Morvath's plan for England?
5. What details of Ned's appearance in Chapter 1 cause Cecilia to assume that he is a pirate?
6. Why is Cecilia excited to learn that she is the target of an assassination attempt?
7. In Chapter 8, what plan for Cecilia does Morvath reveal to Ned, and what motivates Morvath's plan?
8. How is Miss Darlington's Chapter 4 reaction to Cecilia walking two miles typical of her treatment of Cecilia in general?
9. What are the two competing stories that Ned has heard about Morvath's marriage to Cilla?
10. In Chapter 4, why does Miss Darlington suddenly bring the house into town to pick up Cecilia?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Holton's use of paraprosdokian support the novel's motif of things that are unexpected? Write an essay in which you support a claim that she uses many examples of paraprosdokian and then go on to show how this technique forms part of a larger pattern of "unexpectedness" in The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels. Use both quoted and paraphrased evidence to support your ideas.
Essay Topic 2
Choose a chapter of the book to focus on. Write an essay that explicates the use of hyperbole, repetition, juxtaposition, comic timing, incongruity, word play, and comic stereotypes in this chapter. You need not focus on all seven techniques if they are not present in the chapter you choose, but you should identify and explain examples of any that are present in the chapter. If a technique occurs only once, discuss that single example. If a technique occurs two or more times, you need only discuss two instances of the technique. Be sure that your explanations include a discussion of why each technique is what you say it is and commentary on how this technique supports meaning in the text.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay in which you explicate Chapter 26 and argue why it serves as a logical conclusion to the novel that has come before it. How is this chapter the logical culmination of the novel's plot, characterization, and motifs? Support your assertions with evidence from the text.
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