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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: Chapter 21, "Post-Traumatic Housework Disorder," through Chapter 26, "A Woman's Liberation".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Morvath have a hard time locating the door to the secret passage in the gallery?
(a) He is too angry to really focus on the task.
(b) He has not used the passages in many years.
(c) Cilla switched the portraits around.
(d) Jane Fairweather has drugged his tea.

2. When Cecilia goes outside to get some fresh air during the Chapter 6 Wisteria Society meeting, what does she discover is happening?
(a) All of the Wisteria Society husbands are meeting at Miss Brown's house.
(b) Ned is helping Morvath steal Miss Dole's house.
(c) Tom Eames is listening at the window of Mrs. Rotunder's house.
(d) Mrs. Rotunder's butler is meeting with a mysterious cloaked man.

3. When Cecilia interrupts Frederick's "effusions," what is she interrupting (180)?
(a) His unrestrained expression of feeling.
(b) His embarrassing oversharing about his health.
(c) His boring reminiscences about his childhood.
(d) His bitter critique of her father.

4. What does Cecilia throw at Morvath's feet in Chapter 18?
(a) Her copy of Wuthering Heights.
(b) A smoke bomb.
(c) The dagger he gave her as a child.
(d) A mathematics textbook.

5. How did Morvath's adoptive parents die?
(a) In a fire while they were boating.
(b) From being struck by falling birds.
(c) In an explosion in a cow pasture.
(d) From poisoned ink on their morning newspaper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the rhetorical purpose of Cecilia's misunderstanding of the word "protection" during her intimate encounter with Ned?

2. What does Ned surprise Cecilia by revealing when they are arguing about her father in the morning at The Knowles hotel?

3. When she is on her way into Windsor Castle to see Miss Darlington, who stops Cecilia to ask her why it took her and Ned so long to arrive?

4. What is the name of the house where Cecilia lived when she was a small child?

5. When Frederick invites Miss Darlington to his wedding, whom does Cecilia assume he is talking about marrying?

(see the answer key)

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