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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What caused the death of Catherine Tarrant's German lover?
(a) Influenza.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Rheumatic fever.
(d) Diptheria.

2. Who is the one character Rutledge most wants to interrogate in the murder investigation?
(a) Mavers.
(b) Hickam.
(c) Wilton.
(d) Harris.

3. Why did a mob try to lynch Mavers in Chapter 5?
(a) He insisted that Germans are our friends.
(b) He insulted Colonel Harris.
(c) He is simply annoying.
(d) He claimed Wilton killed the murder victim.

4. Who, as described in Chapter 5, died in the Boer War?
(a) Mavers' cousin.
(b) Mavers' sister.
(c) Mavers' father.
(d) Mavers' brother.

5. What class of people does Mavers claim are oppressed in Chapter 5?
(a) Men with titles.
(b) Men without titles.
(c) Working men.
(d) Wealthy men.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, as described in Chapter 5, died of drowning?

2. Who does Helena Sommers admit she saw the morning of the murder in Chapter 4?

3. Who, as revealed in Chapter 10, is receiving a pension from an unknown source?

4. What is Hickam doing the first time Rutledge sees him at the end of Chapter 3?

5. What motive does Lettice Wood suggest Catherine Tarrant might have had to kill the murder victim?

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