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

2. Whose photograph does Inspector Lynley ask Sergeant Barbara Havers to take around town to see if the person was in town at the time of William Teys' murder?
(a) Gillian's.
(b) Ezra Farmington's.
(c) Russell Mowery's.
(d) Nigel Parrish's.

3. How does Father Hart describe Gillian?
(a) Sunshine.
(b) A depressed and depressing young woman.
(c) Gloom and doom.
(d) A spoiled and willful young woman.

4. What does Father Hart credit the saint buried at St. Catherine's Church with saving in the Keldale community?
(a) Catholicism.
(b) The well that provides the community with water.
(c) The children during a smallpox epidemic.
(d) The church building when it was threatened with fire.

5. With what other Keldale villager does Stepha Odell say she and Paul attended college?
(a) Tessa Teys.
(b) Caroline.
(c) Nigel Parrish.
(d) Gillian.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Roberta hope to save from her father's abuse by killing her father?

2. Why doesn't Father Hart tell the police about William Teys' abuse of his daughters when he first learns of it?

3. What is Jonah Clarence's profession?

4. With whom does Richard Gibson say he was having a romantic relationship when he left Keldale at age nineteen?

5. Why doesn't Denton line Inspector Lynley's chest of drawers with newspaper?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 13, why does Sergeant Barbara Havers think Roberta Teys went to Keldale Hall to read the newspaper?

2. About what does Inspector Lynley confront Father Hart in Chapter 16, and how does the priest respond during the confrontation?

3. What descriptions do Inspector Lynley and Sergeant Havers receive from the villagers about Gillian Teys and are this descriptions consistent?

4. What forensic evidence is found in the blood of Whiskers, the Teys family dog, and how does this evidence relate to the murder of William Teys?

5. Whose child does the baby that died at Keldale Abbey three years earlier turn out to be?

6. Where does Gillian get her alias Nell Graham and what relevance does the fictional Helen Graham have to Gillian?

7. What secret does Richard Gibson reveal in Cha,pter 10 about his relationship with his cousin Gillian?

8. At the beginning of Chapter 10, who does Superintendent Nies believe is responsible for William Teys' murder and how cooperative does he intend to be with Inspector Lynley's investigation of the case?

9. Who is Jonah Clarence and what is ironic about his profession?

10. Why is Sergeant Havers so happy when Inspector Lynley sends her to London after Gillian Teys by herself?

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