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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 learn in Chapter 14 features prominently in Mavers' speeches?
(a) The American President.
(b) The Russian Czar.
(c) The German Dictator.
(d) The King of England.

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

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

4. What does Rutledge have trouble picturing when he returns to the meadow where the murder victim was discovered?
(a) Possible location of a witness.
(b) The marks of the bullet's path.
(c) Signs of a struggle.
(d) The sequence of events.

5. What does Mrs. Davenant say about Wilton's choice in women?
(a) He fatalistically falls for women he cannot have.
(b) He could not have chosen a more devoted woman than Lettice Wood.
(c) He has lovely taste in women.
(d) He always chooses the wrong woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rutledge hear as he approaches the Sommers' cottage in Chapter 20?

2. Why does Rutledge continue to hesitate to arrest Wilton at the end of Chapter 16?

3. Who does Rutledge learn he saw sitting in the garden while preparing for lunch in Chapter 16?

4. Why does Rutledge wake Lettice in the middle of the night in the beginning of Chapter 19?

5. Who does Lizzie Pinter look like, as pointed out by Hamish at the end of Chapter 18?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rutledge reveal in the beginning of Chapter 19 that he believes happened in the meadow the morning of the murder?

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

3. Who killed Colonel Charles Harris?

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

5. What does Rutledge discover in Chapter 20 when he goes into Helena Sommers' bedroom the morning of the funeral?

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

7. How does Lizzie Pinter react to her father physically attacking Rutledge in Chapter 18?

8. What does Lettice Wood say about her thoughts on Wilton's possible motives for murder?

9. 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?

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

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