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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 an inquest?
(a) A naming of susects in a murder investigation.
(b) A murder investigation.
(c) A judicial investigation into cause of death.
(d) A court hearing such as an arraignment.

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

3. Why does Rutledge often go to church while investigating a murder?
(a) It helps him deal with Hamish.
(b) He is a highly religious man.
(c) It helps him get a feel for the villagers and suspects.
(d) He enjoys ritual.

4. What does Rutledge ask Lettice Wood to go over with him one last time in Chapter 12?
(a) Catherine Tarrant's grudge against herself and her guardian.
(b) Wilton's motive for murder.
(c) Mavers' motive for murder.
(d) Her final evening with her guardian.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Carfield preach about in Chapter 15?

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

3. What is the topic of conversation when Rutledge first arrives to speak with Wilton at the beginning of Chapter 18?

4. What does Mark Wilton spend the end of Chapter 17 doing?

5. Who does Rutledge learn in Chapter 14 features prominently in Mavers' speeches?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 16, Rutledge learns that Harris ate lunch at the inn often. What is unusual about Harris' lunch the Tuesday before his death?

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 attend church in Chapter 15? What happens afterward?

4. Who does Rutledge ask to find the owner of the doll in Chapter 13?

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

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

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

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

9. Why does Rutledge interview the two women of ill-repute who live on the lane?

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

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