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

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. What relative of Sergeant Barbara Havers has died of leukemia?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her daughter.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her brother.

4. What aristocratic title does Inspector Lynley hold?
(a) The Marquis of Lidenberry.
(b) The 8th Earl of Asherton.
(c) The 5th Duke of Hornchester.
(d) Viscount Faimon.

5. From what disease does Sergeant Barbara Havers' mother suffer?
(a) Leukemia.
(b) Asthma.
(c) Diabetes.
(d) Senility.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Simon Allcourt-St. James do for a living?

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

3. Which relative of William Teys will inherit the Teys family farm?

4. Where do Inspector Lynley and Sergeant Barbara Havers encounter Denton in Chapter 5?

5. What do Danny and Ezra Farmington find at Keldale Abbey three years prior to William Teys' murder?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of figurative language does Elizabeth George use in the first two chapters of "A Great Deliverance", and what purpose does figurative language serve in the novel?

2. How do Superintendent Malcolm Webberly's marriage and career compare to those of his supervisor, Sir David Hillier?

3. What does Tessa Mowrey tell Inspector Lynley about her marriage to William Teys?

4. What is Sergeant Barbara Havers' family like?

5. To whom has a shrine been built at Gembler Farm, and why is this shrine a red herring?

6. What facts does Father Hart reveal in Chapter 3 about William Teys' murder?

7. What is Richard Gibson's relationship to Roberta and what implicates him as a suspect in the murder of William Teys?

8. In Chapter 6, what relevance does the quote Lynley reads from the biblical story of Joseph about Joseph saving his brothers' lives by a great deliverance have to the Teys family?

9. Who is the Railway Ripper and what crimes is he or she committing?

10. Why does Sergeant Havers think Superintendent Webberly assigns her to work with Inspector Lynley on the investigation of William Teys' murder?

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