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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Hickam doing the first time Rutledge sees him at the end of Chapter 3?
(a) Lying drunk on the ground.
(b) Arguing with Mavers.
(c) Stealing bread from the inn.
(d) Directing traffic as though he is still in France.

2. Who does Wilton recall meeting on his morning walk the day of the murder?
(a) Maggie Sommers and a child.
(b) Helena Sommers and a child who had lost her doll.
(c) Hickam and a woman of ill repute.
(d) Catherine Tarrant and her new lover.

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

4. Who, as described in Chapter 5, died of drowning?
(a) Mavers' brother.
(b) Mavers' father.
(c) Mavers' mother.
(d) Mavers' sister.

5. With whom does Rutledge learn in Chapter 2 the murder victim fought the night before his death?
(a) Hickam.
(b) Lettice Wood.
(c) Mavers.
(d) Wilton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What alibi does Inspector Forrest present to Rutledge for Mavers in Chapter 6?

2. How is the murder victim in this novel killed?

3. Who is Catherine Tarrant searching for at the beginning of chapter 6?

4. Where did the murder that will be investigated in this novel take place?

5. Who is Lettice Wood's fiance?

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