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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 do Danny and Ezra Farmington find at Keldale Abbey three years prior to William Teys' murder?
(a) An abandoned baby.
(b) A stolen emerald necklace.
(c) A suitcase filled with counterfeit money.
(d) A murdered priest.

2. Who owns Keldale Hall?
(a) Olivia Odell.
(b) Sopha Odell.
(c) Mrs. Burton-Thomas.
(d) Tessa Mowery.

3. In Chapter 2, what event is Lynley attending when Sergeant Havers must summon him back to London for a meeting with their superiors?
(a) Simon Allancourt-St. James' wedding.
(b) His niece's baptism.
(c) Lady Helen Clyde's birthday party.
(d) His father's retirement party.

4. Who is arrested for the murder over the garnet necklace?
(a) The murder victim's chauffeur.
(b) The murder victim's physician.
(c) The murder victim's chef.
(d) The murder victim's son-in-law.

5. What legend does Danny tell Simon and Deborah Allcourt-St. James about Keldale Abbey?
(a) Henry VIII courted Anne Boleyn there.
(b) A nun and a priest once fell in love there.
(c) The ghost of a crying baby haunts the place.
(d) A medieval priest performed healing miracles there.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 5, to where does Stepha Odell inform Inspector Lynley that Roberta Teys has been sent?

2. When Sergeant Barbara Havers removes a photo in Roberta's room from its frame and unfolds it, what does she find on the unfolded edge of the photo?

3. What photographs hanging on the walls of Superintendent Webberly's office are studied by Inspector Lynley in Chapter 3?

4. How is William Teys murdered?

5. In what part of England has William Teys been murdered?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sergeant Barbara Havers look like?

2. 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?

3. How do Hank and JoJo Watson differ from Simon and Deborah Allcourt-St. James?

4. What is Sergeant Barbara Havers' opinion of Inspector Thomas "Tommy" Lynley?

5. What disagreement between police officers Nies and Kerridge results in Father Hart traveling to London?

6. What is Sergeant Barbara Havers' family like?

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

8. Why does Father Hart believe Roberta Teys did not kill her father despite her confession that she did?

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

10. Who is Lady Helen Clyde?

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