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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. What are the "tiny white wishes" that Cecilia is focused on in the scene at Greenwich with her mother (195)?
3. Why does Ned question Cecilia's order to land the house after she blows a hold in the abbey's west wing?
4. When Cecilia, Ned, and Lady Armitage are talking in the woods during the scouting mission in Chapter 13, what does Ned begin to suspect Cecilia is planning?
5. What technique is evidence in Ned's thought that there is "a wind-colored silence" in Cecilia's eyes (128)?
Short Essay Questions
1. When Ned realizes that Cecilia has a hangover, how does he explain it to her, and why?
2. Describe the place in the abbey where the Wisteria Society battlehouses have been moored.
3. What is so upsetting to Ned about Cecilia's "defensive tones" when she is talking about her paternal heritage (128)?
4. 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?
5. When Cecilia wakes in Northangerland Abbey, what evidence does she consider for and against Ned's involvement with her father?
6. What daydream of Ned's makes it clear that he is not fully paying attention to what Cecilia is telling him about their future?
7. 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)?
8. What startling claim does Lady Armitage make about pneumonia in Chapter 13, and what related critique of Miss Darlington does she make?
9. Why did Morvath kill Ned's mother?
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
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.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Write an essay in which you explicate Chapter 26 and argue why it serves as a logical conclusion to the novel that has come before it. How is this chapter the logical culmination of the novel's plot, characterization, and motifs? Support your assertions with evidence from the text.
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