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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. How does Hamish McLeod respond to the portrait of Rolf Linden by Catherine Tarrant?
(a) He admires it.
(b) He cries.
(c) He mocks it.
(d) He laughs.

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

3. What question does Rutledge repeatedly ask Lettice Wood that she refuses to answer?
(a) What did Harris think of Wilton?
(b) Why would Harris call off her wedding?
(c) Who murdered Harris?
(d) What did Wilton know about Harris' business deals?

4. Who does Rutledge learn he saw sitting in the garden while preparing for lunch in Chapter 16?
(a) Maggie Sommers.
(b) Helena Sommers.
(c) Lettice Wood.
(d) Catherine Tarrant.

5. What does Mark Wilton spend the end of Chapter 17 doing?
(a) Writing a suicide note.
(b) Saying goodbye to good friends.
(c) Preparing to run away.
(d) Putting his affairs in order.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the item Rutledge finds in the meadow in Chapter 12 tell Rutledge?

2. What is Catherine Tarrant's main motive as revealed by her own thoughts in Chapter 17?

3. What does Rutledge threaten when Rutledge tells him of the evidence mounting against him?

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

5. What questions cause Lizzie Pinter to begin screaming in her grandmother's arms at the end of Chapter 18?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What information does Mrs. Davenant give Rutledge about Wilton in Chapter 11 that could provide a motive for murder?

3. What does Lettice Wood reveal to Rutledge in Chapter 19 after he wakes her in the middle of the night?

4. Why does Catherine Tarrant admit she paid Hickam after the murder?

5. Why does Rutledge attend church in Chapter 15? What happens afterward?

6. Who is Lettice Wood surprised to learn was the source of Mavers' pension?

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

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

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

10. Who killed Colonel Charles Harris?

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