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

2. What image has been in Lettice Wood's head since learning of her guardian's violent death?
(a) His mangled body.
(b) His smiling face as she last saw it.
(c) A bloody mass of flesh.
(d) A bloody shirt front.

3. 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 had resolved a dispute for one of the women of ill repute.
(b) He was visiting a woman of ill repute.
(c) He was visiting Helena Sommers.
(d) He was on his way into the village.

4. Redfern did not want who treating him when he was in hospital during the war?
(a) Catherine Tarrant.
(b) Lettice Wood.
(c) Sally Davenant.
(d) Helena Sommers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Rutledge think about as he studies a portrait of Rolf Linden by Catherine Tarrant?

2. What was the profession of Mavers' father?

3. Rutledge returns to the meadow in Chapter 12 and finds what object?

4. What makes Lettice Wood decide Mark Wilton could not have killed her guardian?

5. Who objects loudly to Rutledge's decision to postpone arresting Wilton?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Rutledge agree in Chapter 18 to delay his arrest of Captain Wilton until after the funeral?

2. What does Rutledge say in Chapter 12 that causes Lettice Wood to become angry with him? How does Rutledge respond to this anger?

3. Why does Rutledge questions Mrs. Davenant about the pension Mavers' receives in Chapter 11?

4. Why does Bowles claim Scotland Yard cannot support Rutledge if he arrests Captain Wilton without strong evidence in Chapter 18?

5. What does Rutledge fear will happen should he arrest Captain Wilton for the murder of Colonel Harris?

6. Where does Rutledge find himself continuously drawn as he continues to investigate the murder of Harris?

7. Why does Rutledge question women in the village square in Chapter 14 about Mavers' alibi?

8. Who tells Lettice Wood that he once was involved in a car accident that resulted in a child's death in a way to comfort her in her grief?

9. In what condition does Rutledge find the owner of the doll he found in Chapter 12 in the meadow where Harris' body was found?

10. What major regret does Lettice Wood confess she has in the death of her guardian?

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