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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. Who is Black Beryl?
2. What does Tom find out about Oply in Chapter 8?
3. In Chapter 3, what does Cecilia seem to find indecent about Ned's waistcoat?
4. Who suggests that Cecilia leave the teahouse to look for a library in the village?
5. Whose butler has stolen her house?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the fate of the book of Wordsworth poems that Cecilia is reading while she drives the carriage in Chapter 9?
2. What is paradoxical about Lady Armitage's attitude toward Cecilia in Chapter 2?
3. How is Miss Darlington's Chapter 4 reaction to Cecilia walking two miles typical of her treatment of Cecilia in general?
4. What does Cecilia understand about Miss Brown's nighttime encounter with Tom Eames that Miss Brown herself fails to understand?
5. What are the two competing stories that Ned has heard about Morvath's marriage to Cilla?
6. What is the history of Cecilia's relationship with Jane Fairweather?
7. Why is Cecilia excited to learn that she is the target of an assassination attempt?
8. In Chapter 4, why does Miss Darlington suddenly bring the house into town to pick up Cecilia?
9. How does Cecilia's behavior continue to deteriorate after dinner, and what does Ned do in response?
10. What is Morvath's plan for England?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
You have learned that social critique is characteristic of true Victorian Gothic novels. Write an essay in which you take and defend a position on the following question:
In creating a work that is both an homage to and a parody of the Victorian Gothic, has India Holton managed to provide the social critique characteristic of the Victorian Gothic, or does The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels focus too much on humorous parody to be taken seriously as social criticism?
Provide textual evidence to support your assertions, and if you supplement your evidence with outside sources, be sure to cite these in MLA format.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay in which you analyze illness as metaphor in The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels. How do concerns about illness manifest themselves in this text, and why is it likely that they are a disguise for other concerns? What are those concerns? Support your claims with evidence from the text.
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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