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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 are the "tiny white wishes" that Cecilia is focused on in the scene at Greenwich with her mother (195)?
2. When Cecilia thinks that Ned looks "like a flower luring victims into its poisonous core," what two techniques are being used (193)?
3. Where is Lady Armitage spend time walking while she waits for Ned in Chapter 12?
4. When Frederick tries to assert his status over Ned, what new identity does Ned reveal?
5. What book of Cecilia's did Morvath burn when she was a child?
Short Essay Questions
1. What running joke about Jacobsen's name is introduced in Chapter 12, and what motif is this joke a part of?
2. 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?
3. What is Cecilia's reasoning for suggesting that she and Ned spend some time alone in her bedroom before they rejoin the rest of the Wisteria Society?
4. What is happening when Ned and Cecilia argue about Ned intruding on Lady Armitage's "intimate presence," and what is their argument really about (144)?
5. What is Oply's strategy for getting her way with Tom?
6. 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?
7. What is the rhetorical function of the extended description of the dinner that Ned, Cecilia, and Lady Armitage prepare in Chapter 13?
8. When Cecilia wakes in Northangerland Abbey, what evidence does she consider for and against Ned's involvement with her father?
9. What is so upsetting to Ned about Cecilia's "defensive tones" when she is talking about her paternal heritage (128)?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In what sense does The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels comment as much upon modern Western society as it does upon Victorian society? How does this novel reflect our ambivalence toward the past and our mixed reception of progressive ideas? Support your assertions with evidence from the text; if you incorporate information from outside sources, be sure to cite these in MLA format.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay in which you compare and contrast the text's treatment of gender disparities with its treatment of class disparities. Which one does the text take more seriously? Where is the text's empathy more clearly directed? Does the text fully succeed in its commentary on either? Support your assertions with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 3
Choose a chapter of the book to focus on. Write an essay that examines how comic diction in this chapter supports the text's overall meaning. Study Holton's word choices carefully and then consider what categories her comic diction falls into. Do all of these categories support meaning in the same way, or do their purposes differ? They might support tone, establish character, point out incongruities, or perform other significant tasks, depending on which chapter you choose. Support your claims with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the novel.
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