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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people does Sergeant Barbara Havers find who can testify to ever seeing the person in the photo she is showing around town?
(a) None.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Hundreds.
(d) Dozens.

2. What is strange about the photos Inspector Lynley finds in the Teys family photo album?
(a) Someone has been cut out of many of them.
(b) They have big purple X's painted on them.
(c) They have been painted red.
(d) They have been glued together in a big wad.

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

4. With whom does Richard Gibson say he was having a romantic relationship when he left Keldale at age nineteen?
(a) Olivia Odell.
(b) Gillian.
(c) Stepha Odell.
(d) Roberta.

5. Who does Inspector Lynley send ahead of Gillian to pave the way for Gillian's reunion at the end of the novel?
(a) Sergeant Barbara Havers.
(b) Lady Helen Clyde.
(c) Mrs. Burton-Thomas.
(d) Richard Gibson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What instrument does Jonah Clarence play?

2. Why doesn't anyone realize Roberta is pregnant before she gives birth?

3. With whom does Nigel Parrish see William Teys arguing shortly before Teys' murder?

4. What does the blood spatter found on Roberta Teys' clothing indicate about the murder of William Teys?

5. To what city is Father Hart traveling by train in the novel's opening scene?

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