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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rutledge realize he is lacking in Chapter 13 as to his list of suspects?
(a) A murder weapon.
(b) Evidence.
(c) A motive.
(d) Emotion.

2. Who does Rutledge learn in Chapter 14 features prominently in Mavers' speeches?
(a) The Russian Czar.
(b) The German Dictator.
(c) The King of England.
(d) The American President.

3. Why is Rutledge so determined to arrest Mark Wilton?
(a) He thinks he is guilty.
(b) He has no alternative.
(c) He has to arrest someone.
(d) He dislikes him.

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

5. What does Rutledge threaten when Rutledge tells him of the evidence mounting against him?
(a) To have his friends beat him up.
(b) To fight him in court.
(c) To have him arrested for defamation of character.
(d) To fight to have him fired from Scotland Yard.

6. With whom is Rutledge arguing at the beginning of Chapter 17?
(a) Mark Wilton.
(b) Laurence Royston.
(c) Lettice Wood.
(d) Hamish McLeod.

7. 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 a woman of ill repute.
(c) He had resolved a dispute for one of the women of ill repute.
(d) He was visiting Helena Sommers.

8. What gossip does Rutledge hear in Chapter 14 as he questions the villagers about Mavers?
(a) That Lettice Wood was having an affair with the murder victim.
(b) That it is inappropriate for the Sommers sisters to live so far in the country alone.
(c) That Mark Wilton only wanted to marry Lettice Wood for her money.
(d) That Catherine Tarrant has a new lover.

9. What does Rutledge have trouble picturing when he returns to the meadow where the murder victim was discovered?
(a) The sequence of events.
(b) Possible location of a witness.
(c) The marks of the bullet's path.
(d) Signs of a struggle.

10. How does Lizzie Pinter react to the sight of her father in Chapter 14?
(a) She is frightened.
(b) She is joyful.
(c) She is excited.
(d) She screams.

11. What does Rutledge realize about Maggie Sommers as he approaches her home the day of the funeral?
(a) She is related to a distant cousin.
(b) She is insignificant to the investigation.
(c) He underestimated her.
(d) He does not like her.

12. What is an inquest?
(a) A judicial investigation into cause of death.
(b) A court hearing such as an arraignment.
(c) A murder investigation.
(d) A naming of susects in a murder investigation.

13. Why does Rutledge wake Lettice in the middle of the night in the beginning of Chapter 19?
(a) He wants Lettice to tell him what kind of guns Wilton knows how to use.
(b) He is in need of comfort and information.
(c) He knows who killed Harris and wants to test his theory.
(d) He needs Lettice to confirm what Harris was wearing the morning he died.

14. What injuries does Royston have when Rutledge finds him running from the Sommers' cottage in Chapter 20?
(a) A shotgun blast to his face.
(b) A knife wound to the belly.
(c) A badly cut shoulder.
(d) A gun shot wound in the leg.

15. Who is the real Helena Sommers?
(a) The girl Royston killed in his car accident.
(b) Royston's love child.
(c) Royston's lover.
(d) The child Royston killed in a plane crash.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rutledge calm Lettice Wood after insulting her by implying she had a hand in the murder?

2. What does Lettice Wood claim was taken from her by the refusal to allow her to see her guardian's body one last time?

3. Who does Mavers wait to speak with after the church services in Chapter 15?

4. What is implied by the fight that Harris and Lettice had in the inn before Harris' death?

5. What question does Lettice Wood ask Rutledge in Chapter 19?

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