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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. Just as Pleasance makes it to the bedroom door, pulling Miss Darlington on a blanket, who breaks open the door and enters the room?
2. How does Ned stop Cecilia from confiding her rescue plan to Miss Fairweather?
3. What does Cecilia tell Frederick she plans to use the secret passage to do?
4. Why is Cecilia relieved when she manages to shoot a cannonball that takes out a corner of the west wing of the abbey?
5. What threat does Morvath use to try to make Cecilia leave the secret passage?
Short Essay Questions
1. What precaution does Ned take so that Lady Armitage will not be aware of his and Cecilia's scouting mission in Chapter 13, and how does Lady Armitage evade his plans?
2. What daydream of Ned's makes it clear that he is not fully paying attention to what Cecilia is telling him about their future?
3. What comparison does Alex make between Cecilia and her mother, and what is Cecilia's reaction?
4. When Cecilia and Ned are in the portrait gallery and she announces her plan to kill Morvath, what does Ned tell her?
5. What is ironic about Cecilia's concern for Miss Fairweather in the scene in the breakfast room at Northangerland Abbey?
6. When Ned realizes that Cecilia has a hangover, how does he explain it to her, and why?
7. In what way were Cilla's and Patrick's parenting styles ill-suited to Cecilia's temperament?
8. What startling claim does Lady Armitage make about pneumonia in Chapter 13, and what related critique of Miss Darlington does she make?
9. What is Cecilia's reasoning for suggesting that she and Ned spend some time alone in her bedroom before they rejoin the rest of the Wisteria Society?
10. Describe the place in the abbey where the Wisteria Society battlehouses have been moored.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay in which you analyze Pleasance's character. How is she characterized? How do other characters treat her? What does this say about the other characters? What messages are being conveyed about servants through her character? How does her character both support and undermine the idea that class hierarchies are natural and just? Support your claims with evidence from the text.
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
How does Holton use irony to support meaning in The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels? Write an essay that explores her use of irony and then connects irony to the larger meaning of the novel. Offer both quoted and paraphrased evidence in support of your claims.
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