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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 book of Cecilia's did Morvath burn when she was a child?
2. What threat do Cecilia, Ned, and Lady Armitage use against Jacobsen to get him to reveal information about Morvath's location?
3. What does Ned surprise Cecilia by revealing when they are arguing about her father in the morning at The Knowles hotel?
4. When Ned is daydreaming about marrying Cecilia, what do both his imagined wedding location and honeymoon location have in common?
5. Where does Alex carry his portrait of Cilla?
Short Essay Questions
1. As Pleasance cares for the wounded Miss Darlington, how does their exchange about tea reveal both Miss Darlington's affection for Pleasance and the class divide between the two women?
2. Describe the place in the abbey where the Wisteria Society battlehouses have been moored.
3. Describe Queen Victoria as she appears in this text.
4. When Cecilia and Ned are in the portrait gallery and she announces her plan to kill Morvath, what does Ned tell her?
5. Why did Morvath kill Ned's mother?
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. When Ned realizes that Cecilia has a hangover, how does he explain it to her, and why?
8. What does Ned tell Cecilia right before he kisses her in the broom closet, and how does she respond?
9. 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?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels both parody and pay homage to the Victorian Gothic novel? Write an essay that first uses research from outside sources to establish the conventions of the Victorian Gothic--its typical language, plot, characters, and settings. Then, write a section that shows how The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels pays homage to these conventions. Finally, conclude your essay with a section that shows how The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels parodies some of these same conventions. Offer both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the novel to support your claims; be sure to cite all sources in MLA format.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
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.
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