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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom is Rutledge arguing at the beginning of Chapter 17?
(a) Lettice Wood.
(b) Mark Wilton.
(c) Hamish McLeod.
(d) Laurence Royston.

2. What is split personality?
(a) When a person suffers a disfiguring trauma that changes their outlook on life.
(b) When a person has such emotional trauma that his personality changes dramatically.
(c) When a person shows one personality to the public and one at home.
(d) When an emotionally traumatized person creates a separate personality to deal with pain.

3. For whom did Mavers' father work?
(a) Catherine Tarrant.
(b) Mr. Davenant.
(c) Colonel Harris.
(d) The Haldanes.

4. What does Rutledge vow to do at the end of the novel?
(a) Fight for his fiancee.
(b) Fight for his reputation.
(c) Fight for his sanity.
(d) Fight for his sister's love.

5. What does Rutledge have trouble picturing when he returns to the meadow where the murder victim was discovered?
(a) Possible location of a witness.
(b) The sequence of events.
(c) Signs of a struggle.
(d) The marks of the bullet's path.

6. What does the item Rutledge finds in the meadow in Chapter 12 tell Rutledge?
(a) Wilton lied and he must be the killer.
(b) That Wilton was truthful about his activities that day and there might be another witness.
(c) Wilton lied about seeing Helena Sommers the morning of the murder.
(d) Wilton told the truth about who he saw the morning of the murder, but where he saw them.

7. What is Catherine Tarrant's main motive as revealed by her own thoughts in Chapter 17?
(a) Grief for the loss of Wilton.
(b) All she owes Wilton.
(c) Hope the murderer of Harris will be found soon.
(d) Revenge for the death of her lover.

8. What injuries does Royston have when Rutledge finds him running from the Sommers' cottage in Chapter 20?
(a) A badly cut shoulder.
(b) A gun shot wound in the leg.
(c) A knife wound to the belly.
(d) A shotgun blast to his face.

9. Who does Rutledge ask for an opinion about the murder case in the beginning of Chapter 13?
(a) Catherine Tarrant.
(b) Captain Wilton.
(c) Hickam.
(d) Dr. Warren.

10. Why does Rutledge wake Lettice in the middle of the night in the beginning of Chapter 19?
(a) He knows who killed Harris and wants to test his theory.
(b) He needs Lettice to confirm what Harris was wearing the morning he died.
(c) He is in need of comfort and information.
(d) He wants Lettice to tell him what kind of guns Wilton knows how to use.

11. What does Mark Wilton think will best serve him in what he must do next, as described in Chapter 17?
(a) Lies.
(b) Money.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Secrets.

12. What does Wilton continuously refuse to answer each time Rutledge asks?
(a) Why he broke up with Catherine Tarrant.
(b) What his relationship with Lettice Wood is truly like.
(c) What his relationship with his cousin is.
(d) What his fight with the murder victim was about.

13. What does Lettice Wood claim was taken from her by the refusal to allow her to see her guardian's body one last time?
(a) A chance to say goodbye.
(b) A chance to lay a rose with his body.
(c) A chance to bury him with the rosary he held so dear.
(d) A chance to give him one last kiss.

14. What questions cause Lizzie Pinter to begin screaming in her grandmother's arms at the end of Chapter 18?
(a) About a woman with a shotgun.
(b) About a man with a shotgun.
(c) About a dead body lying in a meadow.
(d) About a man on a horse.

15. Who does Rutledge think he sees in the garden at the Inn while preparing for lunch in Chapter 16?
(a) Helena Sommers.
(b) Catherine Tarrant.
(c) Lettice Wood.
(d) Maggie Sommers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hamish McLeod respond to the portrait of Rolf Linden by Catherine Tarrant?

2. Who does Helena Sommers tell Rutledge has arranged a car to take her to the funeral?

3. Why does Rutledge continue to hesitate to arrest Wilton at the end of Chapter 16?

4. Why does Rutledge often go to church while investigating a murder?

5. Who does Rutledge think about as he studies a portrait of Rolf Linden by Catherine Tarrant?

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