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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Victoria Cross?
(a) A type of pocket watch.
(b) A memorial placed in a cemetery.
(c) An award given to pilots in World War I.
(d) The highest military honor presented to British soldiers.

2. Who does Helena Sommers admit she saw the morning of the murder in Chapter 4?
(a) Wilton.
(b) Royston.
(c) Harris.
(d) Lettice Wood.

3. Who first mentions Mavers to Rutledge while he is doing interviews?
(a) Mark Wilton.
(b) Miss Wood's maid.
(c) Lettice Wood.
(d) Mrs. Davenant.

4. Who, as revealed in Chapter 10, is receiving a pension from an unknown source?
(a) Davies.
(b) Mavers.
(c) Wilton.
(d) Harris.

5. What emotion does Rutledge recognize brings on Hamish McLeod's voice quickly in his mind?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Anger.
(d) Loneliness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which villager does Rutledge recall in Chapter 4 that he saw during his own time in the war?

2. What item in Mavers' house does Hamish find for Rutledge in Chapter 5?

3. Who, as described in Chapter 5, died in the Boer War?

4. Why does Rutledge find himself forced to shoot McLeod after he faced the firing squad?

5. Why does Rutledge return to Helena Sommers' cottage in Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Wilton refuse to answer questions about Catherine Tarrant? What does he chose to talk about instead?

2. What does Rutledge think of the reunion between Lettice Wood and Captain Wilton in Chapter 9?

3. Why does Catherine Tarrant seek out Rutledge in chapter 5?

4. What does Rutledge find unusual about Lettice Wood's manner in Chapter 2?

5. What has happened to Hickman in Chapter 7 that angers Rutledge?

6. Who is Helena Sommers? What is unusual about her living arrangements?

7. What is ironic about the death of Hamish McLeod as described in Chapter 9?

8. Why does Royston tell Rutledge he once borrowed money from Colonel Harris?

9. What does Rutledge note as odd in Wilton's behavior toward Lettice in the aftermath of Harris' murder?

10. Why does Mrs. Davenant urge Captain Wilton to visit Lettice Wood at Mallows?

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