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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13 - 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who kills Roberta's baby?
(a) Roberta.
(b) William Teys.
(c) Ezra Farmington.
(d) Gillian.

2. What about the treatment of Roberta Teys upsets Inspector Lynley in Chapter 6?
(a) She is being denied medicine that she needs.
(b) She is kept in a filthy, rat-infested cell.
(c) Food is being withheld from her.
(d) She's not given a psychiatric exam or an attorney.

3. With whom does Nigel Parrish see William Teys arguing shortly before Teys' murder?
(a) Roberta Teys.
(b) Richard Gibson.
(c) Ezra Farmington.
(d) Russel Mowery.

4. At the end of Chapter 5, to where does Stepha Odell inform Inspector Lynley that Roberta Teys has been sent?
(a) The local jail.
(b) A mental asylum.
(c) The hospital emergency ward.
(d) Scotland Yard.

5. With whom does Inspector Lynley have a brief romance in Chapter 12?
(a) Gillian.
(b) Olivia Odell.
(c) Sergeant Barbara Havers.
(d) Stepha Odell.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who holds Sergeant Havers and comforts her in Chapter 16 when Roberta Teys' confession reminds her of her own family traumas and upsets her?

2. How does Stepha Odell describe Gillian?

3. Why doesn't Father Hart tell the police about William Teys' abuse of his daughters when he first learns of it?

4. What honor does Superintendent Webberly's wife want him to acquire?

5. With what does Roberta Teys line her chest of drawers?

(see the answer key)

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