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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the item Rutledge finds in the meadow in Chapter 12 tell Rutledge?
(a) That Wilton was truthful about his activities that day and there might be another witness.
(b) Wilton lied and he must be the killer.
(c) Wilton told the truth about who he saw the morning of the murder, but where he saw them.
(d) Wilton lied about seeing Helena Sommers the morning of the murder.

2. Why does Rutledge become angry in Chapter 7 while talking with Lettice Wood?
(a) She is beautiful but he can never have her.
(b) She will not answer his questions.
(c) She is more courageous than his former fiancee Jean.
(d) She reminds him of his mother.

3. Who owns the house where the Sommers sisters live?
(a) A family called Warren.
(b) A family called Haldanes.
(c) Captain Wilton.
(d) Colonel Harris.

4. What nationality does one of Lettice Wood's suggest for a secret lover Catherine Tarrant had?
(a) French.
(b) English.
(c) Italian.
(d) German.

5. Why was the murder victim, as discovered by Rutledge in Chapter 14, riding his horse near the houses of ill repute on the lane?
(a) He was visiting a woman of ill repute.
(b) He was on his way into the village.
(c) He was visiting Helena Sommers.
(d) He had resolved a dispute for one of the women of ill repute.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the government want Wilton to help build as he mentions in Chapter 3?

2. For whom did Mavers' father work?

3. What does Lettice Wood say about Rutledge's progress with the investigation in chapter 12?

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

5. Who does Wilton recall meeting on his morning walk the day of the murder?

(see the answer key)

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