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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 does Guy Some say he thought was the big news that Lula had intended to tell him when she left him a message while he was in Japan?

2. At whose country-house did Lula and Fred Bestigui spend a weekend the week before she died?

3. Where does Strike tell Lucy Charlotte has gone for the weekend in Part 3, Chapter 2?

4. On what street is Vashti located?

5. What logo appears on the shirt of the hooded man who gets on the bus in the surveillance video Strike watches in Part 3, Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Robin manage to arrange for Strike to locate Rochelle in Part 3, Chapter 8?

2. What was Strike's relationship with his mother like? How did Strike's mother die?

3. What information does Bryony relate to Strike in Part 4, Chapter 6?

4. Who is Spanner and why does Strike meet with him in Part 3, Chapter 7?

5. What information does Strike learn from Lechinska in Part 4, Chapter 3?

6. Who has been sending Strike death threats? Why?

7. What clues emerge from Strike's meeting with Rochelle in Part 3, Chapter 8?

8. How does Robin glean information from the staff at Vashti? What new information does she learn?

9. What prompted Lula's comment about her brother, according to Ciara in Part 4, Chapter 7?

10. What is Strike's relationship to his sister Lucy like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who was Charlie Bristow? What was his relationship to Cormoran Strike? How did Charlie die? What were the impacts of Charlie's death upon his family?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the information revealed from Lula Landry's laptop computer. From whom does Strike obtain the computer? Who does he have analyze the data from it? How does this information lead Strike to the killer?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and discuss Cormoran Strike as the protagonist of The Cuckoo's Calling. What is Strike's objective in the narrative? What obstacles does he face? What are the characteristics that define Strike? How does Strike's character evolve in the course of the story?

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