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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nigel Parrish do for a living?
(a) He is a music teacher.
(b) He raises sheep.
(c) He is an attorney.
(d) He is an investment banker.

2. How does Gillian send messages to Roberta?
(a) Through personal ads in the newspaper.
(b) She leaves notes in a hollow tree.
(c) She calls Roberta on a cell phone.
(d) Through Stepha Odell.

3. How long has Gillian been married?
(a) One year.
(b) Two years.
(c) One month.
(d) Eight months.

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

5. Why doesn't Ezra Farmington think he can paint any more?
(a) His heart is broken beause Stepha Odell has rejected him.
(b) A scathing review from an art critic has devastated him.
(c) He has arthritis in his hands and painting is too painful now.
(d) He has lost his interest in painting after Paul Odell's death.

6. What does Hank Watson do for a living?
(a) He's a podiatrist.
(b) He's a psychologist.
(c) He's a dentist.
(d) He's an optometrist.

7. Whose grave does Father Hart show Inspector Lynley in Chapter 10?
(a) Paul Odell.
(b) The abandoned baby found at Keldale Abbey 3 years ago.
(c) William Teys.
(d) Tessa Teys.

8. What is the name of the cottage in which Nigel Parrish lives?
(a) Queen's Cottage.
(b) Rose Cottage.
(c) Lavender Cottage.
(d) Smithfield Cottage.

9. Why has Inspector Lynley felt like he's seen Mowery before?
(a) He once lived next door to Mowery.
(b) He has seen the man's photo at Scotland Yard.
(c) Mowery used to be his barber.
(d) He once went to school with Mowery.

10. What profession does Marsha Fitzalan tell Inspector Lynley that Gillian wanted to enter?
(a) Law.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Dentistry.
(d) Medicine.

11. What does Sergeant Barbara Havers realize about Inspector Lynley's relationship with Deborah Allancourt-St. James in Chapter 9?
(a) That Lynley hates Deborah.
(b) That Lynley is in love with Deborah.
(c) That Deborah hates Lynley.
(d) That Deborah is in love with Lynley.

12. Why doesn't anyone realize Roberta is pregnant before she gives birth?
(a) Roberta is locked in her room and not seen in public.
(b) Roberta is greatly overweight.
(c) Roberta wears loose fitting clothing to hide her condition.
(d) Roberta is thin and doesn't gain weight in her pregnancy.

13. With whom do Inspector Lynley and Sergeant Barbara Havers see Nigel Parrish arguing at the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) Stepha Odell.
(b) Roberta Teys.
(c) Ezra Farmington.
(d) Russell Mowery.

14. How does Gillian wear her hair when Jonah Clarence first meets her?
(a) In two long braids.
(b) In a chignon.
(c) Cut very short.
(d) In a pony tail.

15. With what does Roberta Teys line her chest of drawers?
(a) Lavender sachets.
(b) Worn towels.
(c) Ads from the newspaper's personal column.
(d) Empty potato chip bags.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Father Hart credit the saint buried at St. Catherine's Church with saving in the Keldale community?

2. Why does Sergeant Barbara Havers not want to have dinner where Stepha Odell has booked her and Inspector Lynley in Chapter 9?

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

4. At what age does Gillian leave home?

5. What is Nigel Parrish's alibi for the night of William Teys' death?

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