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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 a pension?
(a) Payment for war veterans.
(b) Payment for services rendered.
(c) Insurance payments.
(d) Payment for those who are no longer earning a regular income from employment.

2. What type of handwriting is the letter Bowles received regarding Rutledge written in?
(a) Typed.
(b) Manly.
(c) Girlish.
(d) Cut out letters.

3. What does Rutledge think of the murder victim?
(a) He was an arrogant fool.
(b) He was a good soldier.
(c) He was a murder waiting to happen.
(d) He was a true proper English gentleman.

4. Who or what was the Victoria Cross named for?
(a) Victory in Europe.
(b) Queen Victoria.
(c) Victory in the Pacific.
(d) Victoria Principal.

5. What does Rutledge find unusual about the nurse's attitude toward Hickam in Chapter 9?
(a) She is indifferent.
(b) She is surprisingly kind.
(c) She is callous and cold.
(d) She is surprisingly cruel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Redfern?

2. How is the murder victim in this novel killed?

3. Who is Catherine Tarrant searching for at the beginning of chapter 6?

4. How does Wilton react when Rutledge asks if there were rivals for Lettice Wood's affection?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Rutledge learn that Catherine Tarrant blamed for the death of her German lover?

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

3. Who is Daniel Hickam? Why is he not considered a reliable witness in the murder of Colonel Charles Harris?

4. What does Rutledge see that causes the voice of Hamish to become quite loud for a moment?

5. Who does Rutledge give money to at the end of Chapter 6? For what reason?

6. What does Wilton deny doing the morning of the murder that goes directly against eye witness testimony?

7. What is Rutledge's impression of Carfield, the local vicar?

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

9. What does Rutledge feel is unusual about the position in which the body of Colonel Harris was found?

10. What does Mavers lecture about in public that expresses his unhappiness with the aristocracy in England and particularly Colonel Harris?

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