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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 does Mr. Pinter do for a living?
(a) He is a farmer.
(b) He is a groom.
(c) He is a coal miner.
(d) He is a sheep herdsman.

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

3. Who does Rutledge think about as he studies a portrait of Rolf Linden by Catherine Tarrant?
(a) Jean.
(b) His sister.
(c) Helena Sommers.
(d) Lettice Wood.

4. How does Mavers react to the conversation he has in the church yard after services in Chapter 15?
(a) He is content enough to watch the interaction of the villagers for a brief time.
(b) He is joyous and filled with laughter.
(c) He becomes angry and insults everyone.
(d) He becomes distraught and quickly leaves.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What illness does Rutledge learn Hickam suffers in Chapter 7?

2. What does Hamish tell Rutledge about his ability to finish this case with his reputation intact?

3. 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?

4. What class of people does Mavers claim are oppressed in Chapter 5?

5. Why does Redfern tell Rutledge he believes a fight between Harris and Refern the Tuesday before the murder could not have been terribly serious?

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