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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 beverage that Stepha Odell calls Odell's?
(a) A fruit punch with fresh raspberries and strawberries.
(b) A home-brewed ale made according to her father's recipe.
(c) A mixture of hot tea and rum.
(d) A mixture of coffee and butterscotch with whipped cream.

2. What is the first name of Richard Gibson's wife?
(a) Madeline.
(b) Marsha.
(c) Olivia.
(d) Caroline.

3. What color hair does Stepha Odell have?
(a) Blonde.
(b) Black.
(c) Brown.
(d) Red.

4. What is Jimmy Havers' relationship to Sergeant Barbara Havers?
(a) Jimmy is Barbara's son.
(b) Jimmy is Barbara's husband.
(c) Jimmy is Barbara's grandfather.
(d) Jimmy is Barbara's father.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Teys family farm?

2. Who leaves the village of Keldale for several years to learn to grow barley?

3. Why does Sergeant Barbara Havers think she has been chosen to work with Lynley on the investigation of the murder of William Teys?

4. From what disease does Jimmy Havers suffer?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who is Lady Helen Clyde?

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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