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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 response does Catherine Tarrant receive when she asks a person in Chapter 6 to model for a painting?
(a) The person would like to but her parents would not approve.
(b) The person would like to but is afraid of public scandal.
(c) The person would rather work in the fields.
(d) The person would rather starve than take money from Tarrant.

2. 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?
(a) She does not care who committed the murder.
(b) She is the one who committed the murder.
(c) She knows who committed the murder.
(d) She does not know who committed the murder.

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

4. Who gives Mavers the item Rutledge finds in his home in Chapter 5?
(a) Mrs. Davenant.
(b) Inspector Forrest.
(c) Captain Wilton.
(d) Mr. Davenant.

5. Where is Scotland Yard?
(a) East Hampton.
(b) London.
(c) Paris.
(d) Cairo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Sally Davenant?

2. Who does Rutledge discover Tarrant really is when he goes to see her in Chapter 8?

3. Who does Rutledge run into in Chapter 5 after leaving Mavers?

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

5. What emotion does Rutledge recognize brings on Hamish McLeod's voice quickly in his mind?

(see the answer key)

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