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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What about the suspects does Rutledge have trouble identifying with at the end of Chapter 6?
(a) Their thoughts.
(b) Their testimony.
(c) Their emotions.
(d) Their lifestyles.

2. Who is Agnes Farrell?
(a) Grandmother to Lettice Wood.
(b) Grandmother to Lizzie Pinter.
(c) Grandmother to Helena Sommers.
(d) Grandmother to Catherine Tarrant.

3. Who first mentions Mavers to Rutledge while he is doing interviews?
(a) Mark Wilton.
(b) Miss Wood's maid.
(c) Lettice Wood.
(d) Mrs. Davenant.

4. What does Rutledge think of the murder victim?
(a) He was a good soldier.
(b) He was an arrogant fool.
(c) He was a true proper English gentleman.
(d) He was a murder waiting to happen.

5. Who does the doctor tell Rutledge the town is about to lynch at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) Catherine Tarrant.
(b) Wilton.
(c) Mavers.
(d) Lettice Wood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rutledge tell Bowles when he calls from Scotland Yard in Chapter 9?

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

3. Who does Davies say is a spineless coward in Chapter 2?

4. What does Lettice Wood's violent reaction to the question of whether or not Catherine Tarrant had shot the murder victim cause Rutledge to realize about her?

5. Which villager does Rutledge recall in Chapter 4 that he saw during his own time in the war?

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