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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. What is the relationship between Lady Helen Clyde and Inspector Lynley?

2. From what disease does Jimmy Havers suffer?

3. Who confesses to William Teys' murder?

4. What beverage does Sergeant Barbara Havers drink instead of alcohol?

5. What food served at the Dove and Whistle pub reminds Sergeant Barbara Havers of her family's squalid home?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Nigel Parrish and with whom does he see William Teys arguing shortly before Teys is murdered?

2. How do Superintendent Malcolm Webberly's marriage and career compare to those of his supervisor, Sir David Hillier?

3. Why is Sergeant Barbara Havers put "back in uniform" eight month before the Teys murder?

4. In Chapter 6, what upsets Inspector Lynley about how Roberta Teys is being treated after confessing to her father's murder?

5. What happens when Inspector Lynley and Sergeant Havers' visit with Roberta Teys in Chapter 8, and how do these events alter Havers' opinion of Lynley?

6. What experience has Danny, the maid at Keldale Hall, had with a crying baby at Keldate Abbey?

7. Who are Olivia and Bridie Odell and what is their relationship to William Teys?

8. Who is in the mysterious photograph that Inspector Lynley and Sergeant Barbara Havers find at Gembler Farm and why was this person cut out of the other Teys family photographs?

9. What is Sergeant Barbara Havers' family like?

10. To whom has a shrine been built at Gembler Farm, and why is this shrine a red herring?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss whether or not you think Roberta Reys is crazy and therefore killed her father by reason of insanity. Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the legend of the crying baby at Keldale Abbey from the time of Cromwell's raiders through the present. How does the legend help the cover up of the murder of Roberta Teys' infant? Cite at least three examples from the text to support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

A number of characters in "A Great Deliverance" have secrets. Discuss the novel's motif of secrets. Cite examples form the text to support your arguments.

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