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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Jimmy Havers' relationship to Sergeant Barbara Havers?
2. Who owns Keldale Hall?
3. What has the London press dubbed the person responsible for the murders in the train stations?
4. In Chapter 1, who is killed over a dispute about ownership of a garnet necklace?
5. When Inspector Lynley's brother-in-law was murdered five years ago, who did Chief Inspector Nies arrest for the crime?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do Hank and JoJo Watson differ from Simon and Deborah Allcourt-St. James?
2. To whom has a shrine been built at Gembler Farm, and why is this shrine a red herring?
3. Who is the Railway Ripper and what crimes is he or she committing?
4. How long has Russell Mowrey been missing and what is significance about the date on which he disappeared?
5. Why does Father Hart believe Roberta Teys did not kill her father despite her confession that she did?
6. What is Richard Gibson's relationship to Roberta and what implicates him as a suspect in the murder of William Teys?
7. Who is Lady Helen Clyde?
8. What is Sergeant Barbara Havers' family like?
9. What does Tessa Mowrey tell Inspector Lynley about her marriage to William Teys?
10. Why is Sergeant Barbara Havers put "back in uniform" eight month before the Teys murder?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast Inspector Lynley's relationships with Deborah Allcourt-St. James, Stepha Odell and Sergeant Barbara Havers. Cite examples from the text to support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 2
"A Great Deliverance" is set in a contemporary village in Yorkshire, England. Discuss how the geographical and chronological setting affect the story and how the characters and story might differ if Elizabeth Peters had set the novel in the United States during the 1930's instead. Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.
Essay Topic 3
Compare and contrast any three of the following secondary characters in the novel: Lady Helen Clyde, Stepha Odell, Jimmy Havers, Ezra Farmington, Mrs. Burton-Thomas, Richard Gibson, and Nigel Parrish. Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.
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