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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. What does Ned pretend to see in order to slow Cecilia down enough to catch her as she is running through the portrait gallery?
2. What do Queen Victoria's remarks about Ned cause Oply to realize?
3. Who surprises Lady Armitage by bringing in tea in the place of her butler?
4. What object does Jane Fairweather attack Ned with as they leave the secret passage?
5. When Lady Armitage is thinking about Ned presenting her with Cecilia's finger or ear, what does she remember Cecilia once giving her?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. 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?
3. Describe the place in the abbey where the Wisteria Society battlehouses have been moored.
4. What is so upsetting to Ned about Cecilia's "defensive tones" when she is talking about her paternal heritage (128)?
5. In what way were Cilla's and Patrick's parenting styles ill-suited to Cecilia's temperament?
6. What does Ned tell Cecilia right before he kisses her in the broom closet, and how does she respond?
7. Why did Morvath kill Ned's mother?
8. When Cecilia wakes in Northangerland Abbey, what evidence does she consider for and against Ned's involvement with her father?
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 comparison does Alex make between Cecilia and her mother, and what is Cecilia's reaction?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
On pages 289-291, Pleasance and Cecilia have a conversation about their dreams of equality. This talk is what the chapter's title refers to as "A Bechdel Test Conversation." Look up the meaning of "Bechdel Test." Then, write an essay in which you consider how seriously the text takes the idea of the Bechdel test and whether this has any impact on the reader's reception of the text's feminist messages. Support your claims with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the text, and cite all sources in MLA format.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
There are some novels in which the action and characters are tightly bound to the novel's setting, and others where the action and characters could be from any time and place. What role does setting play in The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels? Write an essay that considers how important the setting of Victorian England is to this novel. Offer textual evidence to support your claims.
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