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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bunter organize in the kitchen at Levy's house?
(a) An interviewing station.
(b) A crime lab.
(c) An evidence display area.
(d) A buffet.

2. What is Mr. Parker's profession?
(a) He is a private investigator.
(b) He is a professor.
(c) He is a police inspector.
(d) He is a mortician.

3. Who telephones Parker in Chapter 5?
(a) Milligan.
(b) Peter.
(c) Bunter.
(d) The Dowager.

4. Who is on the telephone for Lord Wimsey when he returns home?
(a) His friend Parker.
(b) His mother.
(c) His sister-in-law.
(d) His solicitor.

5. What happens when Peter starts to question Crimplesham in Chapter 5?
(a) Crimplesham grows angry,
(b) Crimplesham becomes nervous.
(c) Crimplesham gets scared.
(d) Crimplesham is happy to help.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Milligan agree to see Peter?

2. What does Peter's manservant ask him to purchase in Chapter 2?

3. What does Gladys admit to doing on the night before the body appeared?

4. Who is Mrs. Munns?

5. Why does Crimplesham send a letter to Peter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Parker find written in Levy's diary in Chapter 5, and to whom do he and Peter assume Levy is referring?

2. On what grounds does Peter decide Crimplesham cannot be the murderer of the man in the bathtub?

3. Upon arriving home in Chapter 2, what does Peter find Bunter has accomplished, and what does he offer Bunter?

4. In Chapter 3, what statement given by Thipps to the police was later contradicted by a servant?

5. What happens when Peter voices a wish to be more involved with the investigation of the dead man in the bathtub?

6. Why does Thomas Crimplesham write to Peter in Chapter 5? What was in the letter?

7. What is noted to have happened to the dead man in the bathtub after his death?

8. What does Bunter reveal in his photos in Chapter 4?

9. At the inquest, what does Thipps explain he did on the night before the body appeared in his bathroom?

10. What do the Doctors Freke and Grimbold disagree about at the inquest in Chapter 6?

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