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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 alibi does Inspector Forrest present to Rutledge for Mavers in Chapter 6?
(a) A list of people who saw him making a speech in the town square.
(b) An affidavit from the innkeeper swearing Mavers was sleeping in one of his rooms.
(c) The testimony of Mavers' wife claiming he was at home that morning.
(d) A notorized note from his mother saying he was doing chores for her that morning.

2. What did the government want Wilton to help build as he mentions in Chapter 3?
(a) New tanks.
(b) New machine guns.
(c) New machines designed to kill.
(d) New plane motors.

3. Who is Sally Davenant?
(a) Wilton's mistress.
(b) Wilton's former fiancee.
(c) Wilton's sister.
(d) Wilton's cousin.

4. 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) Catherine Tarrant and her new lover.
(d) Hickam and a woman of ill repute.

5. Where did the murder that will be investigated in this novel take place?
(a) East Hampton, England.
(b) Weltonshire, England.
(c) Warwickshire, England.
(d) York, England.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, as described in Chapter 5, died in the Boer War?

2. Why did a mob try to lynch Mavers in Chapter 5?

3. What emotion is uppermost in the murder victim's mind when he realizes he is dying?

4. What has Bowles received that causes him some pleasure when it comes to dealing with Rutledge?

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

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