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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the murder victim in this novel killed?
(a) With a knife.
(b) With a shotgun blast to the face.
(c) With a poison.
(d) With a gunshot to the breast.

2. Who, as described in Chapter 5, died of drowning?
(a) Mavers' sister.
(b) Mavers' father.
(c) Mavers' brother.
(d) Mavers' mother.

3. Who does Rutledge learn he saw sitting in the garden while preparing for lunch in Chapter 16?
(a) Lettice Wood.
(b) Catherine Tarrant.
(c) Helena Sommers.
(d) Maggie Sommers.

4. What did Hamish McLeod refuse to do that caused Rutledge to send him to stand before the firing squad during World War I?
(a) Refused to leave the battlefield.
(b) He killed another soldier in their squad.
(c) He tried to kill Rutledge.
(d) Refused to follow a direct order.

5. To whom does a witness claim Catherine Tarrant gave money after the murder?
(a) Hickam.
(b) Lettice Wood.
(c) Wilton.
(d) Helena Sommers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who seems to be the main topic of conversation in the beginning of Chapter 17?

2. What does Lettice Wood think of Rutledge?

3. What emotion does Rutledge recognize brings on Hamish McLeod's voice quickly in his mind?

4. Who does Forrest suggest it was that told the town of Catherine Tarrant's love affair with a German during the war?

5. What does Wilton continuously refuse to answer each time Rutledge asks?

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