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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. What did Cilla ask Ned to promise her?
(a) That he would make the world safer for Cecilia.
(b) That he would help her escape from her husband.
(c) That he would escort Cecilia safely to Miss Darlington.
(d) That he would avenge his mother someday.

2. 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?
(a) To steal Northangerland Abbey.
(b) To join forces with Morvath.
(c) To lose him in the woods.
(d) To get captured on purpose.

3. When Lady Armitage is thinking about Ned presenting her with Cecilia's finger or ear, what does she remember Cecilia once giving her?
(a) An ice cream.
(b) A diamond bracelet.
(c) A dagger.
(d) A toy dog.

4. In Chapter 12, what solution does Cecilia offer to the problem of the patriarchy?
(a) Getting rid of men entirely.
(b) Women's suffrage.
(c) Replacing it with matriarchy.
(d) Education for women.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who unexpectedly shows up while Ned and Cecilia are talking in the portrait gallery?

2. When Tom looks at himself in the clothing shop, whom does he realize Oply has dressed him to look like?

3. What does Ned pretend to see in order to slow Cecilia down enough to catch her as she is running through the portrait gallery?

4. What does Miss Darlington mean when, on page 223, she tells Cecilia "Plan B"?

5. What book of Cecilia's did Morvath burn when she was a child?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When Ned realizes that Cecilia has a hangover, how does he explain it to her, and why?

3. When they are in the secret garden and Cecilia disappears into Millie's house to get a ladder, what mystifies her about Ned's reaction?

4. Describe the place in the abbey where the Wisteria Society battlehouses have been moored.

5. 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?

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

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. What is ironic about Cecilia's concern for Miss Fairweather in the scene in the breakfast room at Northangerland Abbey?

9. What is Oply's strategy for getting her way with Tom?

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

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