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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to the elevator of Sunset Towers?
(a) It broke down and wasn't repaired for some time.
(b) A person was murdered in it.
(c) It was turned into a bulletin board.
(d) It became a meeting place for sharing clues among pairs.

2. Why was Angela upset and crying at the party?
(a) He fiance had broke up with her.
(b) She had lost her clues.
(c) She was tired of her mother running everything for her.
(d) Someone said something nasty to her.

3. Which pair of heirs did not get their money?
(a) Turtle and Flora Baumbach.
(b) Dr. Wexler and Mrs. Hoo.
(c) Angela and Mrs. Pulaski.
(d) Chris and Dr. Deere.

4. Each of the pairs of heirs gained something from their partner. What did Turtle gain from her partner?
(a) She got to stop going to school so that she could help her partner.
(b) She got to keep all the $10,000.
(c) She got to share all the clues with other partners.
(d) She received acceptance and nurturing.

5. Why did Mrs. Wexler fix Turtle's hair and tell her she was so pretty in pink?
(a) She wanted to coax her to share her clues.
(b) Her husband told her to start being nicer to Turtle.
(c) She loved Turtle best of her two daughters.
(d) She wanted to make up for ignoring Turtle for years.

6. Why did Mr. Hoo laugh when Mrs. Wexler said Turtle was helping Dr. Wexler with his bookkeeping?
(a) Because Dr. Wexler was a bookie.
(b) He knew Dr. Wexler was with another woman.
(c) He didn't think Dr. Wexler had enough patients to need a bookkeeper.
(d) Turtle was too young to know about bookkeeping.

7. Which of the following was NOT listed in the letters as features of the apartments?
(a) Maid service.
(b) A uniformed doorman.
(c) A picture window in every room.
(d) Water and sewage included in the rent.

8. What exciting story did Turtle have to tell her family, but decided not to tell all the details?
(a) The story that Mr. Westing's corpse lay rotting in the Mansion.
(b) The ghost story related to the Westing Mansion.
(c) A scandal she had heard about Angela's fiance.
(d) The fact that she had seen Angela's fiance with another girl.

9. How did Mrs. Sydelle get hurt?
(a) She slid on the ice.
(b) From the explosion in Hoo's kitchen.
(c) Someone pushed her down in the hall and disappeared.
(d) She fell in the elevator while reading the notices.

10. A thief was discovered when an important piece of evidence went missing. What was the evidence that was stolen?
(a) The Will was stolen.
(b) Mr. Westing's body disappeared.
(c) The shorthand notes were stolen.
(d) One of the pair's $10,000 was stolen.

11. What did Mrs. Pulaski criticize Judge Ford about?
(a) For not sharing her clues.
(b) Being snooty.
(c) For doing a man's job.
(d) Choosing her career over marriage.

12. What feeling does Chris have about the one-way windows in his apartment?
(a) He feels that someone can still watch him through them.
(b) He thinks they make the apartment look sharp from the outside.
(c) He thinks they are a waste because no one cares to watch him anyway.
(d) He likes them because no one can see him.

13. Why didn't Mrs. Hoo attend the first meeting for the reading of the Will?
(a) She had to open the restaurant while the others met.
(b) She didn't believe she was part of the Will.
(c) She was actually the murderer and didn't want to go.
(d) She wasn't told and didn't speak English so didn't hear about it.

14. There was a lot of speculation by the group outside Westing House about how Westing died. Which of the following was NOT a part of that speculation?
(a) Turtle stumbled and fell on his head.
(b) He was poisoned.
(c) He committed suicide.
(d) He got stung by a bee.

15. Two people at Sunset Towers were not heirs. Who were they?
(a) Turtle and Chris.
(b) George and Catherine Theodorakis.
(c) Dr. Wexler and Otis.
(d) Sandy the doorman and Crow.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did it take for all the apartments and offices in the Sunset Towers to be rented out?

2. In Chapter 13, who did Flora say Angela looked like?

3. Why would there be no autopsy on Westing's body?

4. Why were the residents of Sunset Towers given an invitation to the reading of Westing's Will?

5. Who was the first to be shown an apartment in Sunset Towers?

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