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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On page 243, what does Ned say when he sees the building Morvath is flying explode?
(a) "We got you justice, Mama."
(b) "It's more than I could ask for."
(c) "Sloppy navigation, Morvath."
(d) "What goes up must come down."

2. What does Ned surprise Cecilia by revealing when they are arguing about her father in the morning at The Knowles hotel?
(a) He is related to her father's adoptive family.
(b) He once met her mother.
(c) He once kissed Oply.
(d) He is a member of the queen's secret service.

3. In Chapter 18, what surprising information does Cecilia get about Miss Darlington?
(a) She deliberately let herself get captured.
(b) She is not biologically related to Cecilia.
(c) She is Morvath's mother.
(d) She plans to kill Lady Armitage.

4. What does Ned pretend to see in order to slow Cecilia down enough to catch her as she is running through the portrait gallery?
(a) A picture of Branwell Bronte.
(b) Miss Darlington.
(c) A bookshelf.
(d) One of Morvath's henchmen.

5. In Chapter 19, what royal occasion does the queen decide to invite Miss Darlington to?
(a) A garden party.
(b) Princess Alice's wedding.
(c) Prince Edward's birthday.
(d) Her Jubilee Banquet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What threat does Morvath use to try to make Cecilia leave the secret passage?

2. In Chapter 11, what causes Ned to suggest that it would be better to take the carriage than ride the horses that Cecilia has procured?

3. What is the fate of the small building Morvath is flying?

4. Whom do the portraits in the gallery depict?

5. What are the women of the Wisteria Society doing at the beginning of Chapter 18, while Cecilia stands watch at the door?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ned tell Cecilia right before he kisses her in the broom closet, and how does she respond?

2. 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?

3. What startling claim does Lady Armitage make about pneumonia in Chapter 13, and what related critique of Miss Darlington does she make?

4. What running joke about Jacobsen's name is introduced in Chapter 12, and what motif is this joke a part of?

5. What is the rhetorical function of the extended description of the dinner that Ned, Cecilia, and Lady Armitage prepare in Chapter 13?

6. 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)?

7. What daydream of Ned's makes it clear that he is not fully paying attention to what Cecilia is telling him about their future?

8. 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?

9. 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?

10. Where are the queen and Oply at the beginning of Chapter 19, and what are they doing?

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