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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. Who does Rutledge run into in Chapter 5 after leaving Mavers?
(a) Wilton.
(b) Tarrant.
(c) Royston.
(d) Warren.
2. What is the point of view of this novel?
(a) Second person.
(b) First person.
(c) Third person omniscient.
(d) Third person limited.
3. Who does Wilton recall meeting on his morning walk the day of the murder?
(a) Maggie Sommers and a child.
(b) Hickam and a woman of ill repute.
(c) Helena Sommers and a child who had lost her doll.
(d) Catherine Tarrant and her new lover.
4. Who owns the house where the Sommers sisters live?
(a) Colonel Harris.
(b) A family called Warren.
(c) A family called Haldanes.
(d) Captain Wilton.
5. What did the government want Wilton to help build as he mentions in Chapter 3?
(a) New tanks.
(b) New machines designed to kill.
(c) New machine guns.
(d) New plane motors.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Hickam doing the first time Rutledge sees him at the end of Chapter 3?
2. What label was Mavers given, as described in Chapter 5, that he chose to live up to?
3. What response does Catherine Tarrant receive when she asks a person in Chapter 6 to model for a painting?
4. Where did the murder that will be investigated in this novel take place?
5. Why did a mob try to lynch Mavers in Chapter 5?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is Daniel Hickam? Why is he not considered a reliable witness in the murder of Colonel Charles Harris?
2. Why did Harris stop Mavers from joining the military as Mavers describes it in Chapter 5?
3. Who is Helena Sommers? What is unusual about her living arrangements?
4. Who does Rutledge learn that Catherine Tarrant blamed for the death of her German lover?
5. What has happened to Hickman in Chapter 7 that angers Rutledge?
6. Why does Rutledge have Davies check the railroad for out of town visitors the day of the murder?
7. Who is Bowles? Why does he dislike Rutledge?
8. In Chapter 9, what does Dr. Warren believe is wrong with Lizzie Pinter?
9. What is ironic about the death of Hamish McLeod as described in Chapter 9?
10. What is Rutledge's impression of Carfield, the local vicar?
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