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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is guarding the Sommers home when Rutledge arrives in Chapter 7?
(a) A pig.
(b) A goose.
(c) A cat.
(d) A dog.

2. What does Lettice Wood accuse Rutledge of doing during their interview at the end of Chapter 16?
(a) Fishing for information.
(b) Forcing her to admit to something she did not do.
(c) Acting on desperation.
(d) Implying an affair where none existed.

3. What does Rutledge hear as he approaches the Sommers' cottage in Chapter 20?
(a) The goose and a woman screaming.
(b) A shotgun blast.
(c) A child screaming.
(d) The goose and a man screaming.

4. 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 on his way into the village.
(b) He was visiting Helena Sommers.
(c) He had resolved a dispute for one of the women of ill repute.
(d) He was visiting a woman of ill repute.

5. Who does Helena Sommers suggest might be the murderer in Chapter 10?
(a) Someone from Upper Streetham.
(b) Someone from Paris.
(c) Someone from Germany.
(d) Someone from London.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Lettice Wood?

2. What is split personality?

3. Where is Scotland Yard?

4. What does Mark Wilton spend the end of Chapter 17 doing?

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

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