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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. Why does Lady Armitage wish to have Cecilia killed?
2. Why is Cecilia unable to read the letter from the Wisteria Society?
3. On page 78, what criticism does Miss Darlington make of Miss Brown's language when they are just outside the Ancient Mariner?
4. What is Jane constantly reading throughout Chapters 6 and 7?
5. When Ned is trying to decide what Cecilia's nickname should be, to what flower does he compare her?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Morvath's plan for England?
2. How does Cecilia's behavior continue to deteriorate after dinner, and what does Ned do in response?
3. How is Miss Darlington's Chapter 4 reaction to Cecilia walking two miles typical of her treatment of Cecilia in general?
4. What is the fate of the book of Wordsworth poems that Cecilia is reading while she drives the carriage in Chapter 9?
5. What is unusual about Pleasance's mental state?
6. What details of Ned's appearance in Chapter 1 cause Cecilia to assume that he is a pirate?
7. What kind of a relationship do Ned and Alex seem to have, and how does the reader know this?
8. In Chapter 8, what plan for Cecilia does Morvath reveal to Ned, and what motivates Morvath's plan?
9. What is ironic about the Wisteria Society's motto and their activities at the meeting that Cecila and Miss Darlington walk into at the beginning of Chapter 6?
10. What is ironic about the Chapter 1 conversation about Miss Darlington's concerns over how she would have handled Ned had he tried to break in when she was alone in the house?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay in which you analyze illness as metaphor in The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels. How do concerns about illness manifest themselves in this text, and why is it likely that they are a disguise for other concerns? What are those concerns? Support your claims with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay in which you take and defend a position about what The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels conveys about heritage and identity. Consider how both plot details and characterization impact the reader's understanding of this question. Support your assertions with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 3
You have learned that social critique is characteristic of true Victorian Gothic novels. Write an essay in which you take and defend a position on the following question:
In creating a work that is both an homage to and a parody of the Victorian Gothic, has India Holton managed to provide the social critique characteristic of the Victorian Gothic, or does The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels focus too much on humorous parody to be taken seriously as social criticism?
Provide textual evidence to support your assertions, and if you supplement your evidence with outside sources, be sure to cite these in MLA format.
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