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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 is the relationship between Simon Allcourt-St. James and Inspector Lynley?
(a) They're best friends.
(b) They're stepbrothers.
(c) They're enemies.
(d) They're cousins.

2. What does Ezra Farmington do for a living?
(a) He's a police officer.
(b) He's a tailor.
(c) He's a farmer.
(d) He's an artist.

3. How old is Bridie Odell?
(a) Ten.
(b) Nine.
(c) Thirteen.
(d) Five.

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

5. What is Danny's relationship to Ezra Farmington?
(a) She's Ezra's classmate.
(b) She's Ezra's girlfriend.
(c) She's Ezra's roommate.
(d) She's Ezra's model.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Stepha Odell's relationship to Olivia Odell, William Teys' fiancée?

2. Who are Hank and JoJo Watson?

3. What hangs on the wall of Stepha Odell's business?

4. Where do Simon Allcourt-St. James and his new bride stay during their honeymoon?

5. Why is the person arrested for the murder over the garnet necklace freed from jail?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Inspector Lynley feel guilty about the permanent crippling of his close friend Simon Allancourt-St. James?

2. Why does Stepha Odell think Roberta visited Keldale Lodge every day?

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

4. In Chapter 6, what upsets Inspector Lynley about how Roberta Teys is being treated after confessing to her father's murder?

5. Who are Olivia and Bridie Odell and what is their relationship to William Teys?

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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