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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 Cecilia tell Frederick she plans to use the secret passage to do?
2. Why is Cecilia relieved when she manages to shoot a cannonball that takes out a corner of the west wing of the abbey?
3. What does Jane say Miss Darlington treats Cecilia like?
4. When Lady Armitage is thinking about Ned presenting her with Cecilia's finger or ear, what does she remember Cecilia once giving her?
5. Who unexpectedly shows up while Ned and Cecilia are talking in the portrait gallery?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the rhetorical function of the extended description of the dinner that Ned, Cecilia, and Lady Armitage prepare in Chapter 13?
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. 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?
4. Describe Queen Victoria as she appears in this text.
5. In what way were Cilla's and Patrick's parenting styles ill-suited to Cecilia's temperament?
6. What comparison does Alex make between Cecilia and her mother, and what is Cecilia's reaction?
7. Why did Morvath kill Ned's mother?
8. What running joke about Jacobsen's name is introduced in Chapter 12, and what motif is this joke a part of?
9. What is ironic about Cecilia's concern for Miss Fairweather in the scene in the breakfast room at Northangerland Abbey?
10. 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)?
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
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 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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