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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What image has been in Lettice Wood's head since learning of her guardian's violent death?

2. What is Mrs. Davenant's opinion of the relationship between Catherine Tarrant and Rolf Linden?

3. What is the primary thought on Lettice Wood's mind in the end of Chapter 17?

4. Where does Rutledge go to speak to Wilton in the beginning of Chapter 18?

5. What does Lettice Wood accuse Rutledge of doing during their interview at the end of Chapter 16?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What new information does Rutledge get when he is finally able to interview Hickam in Chapter 15?

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

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

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

6. How does Rutledge react when Catherine Tarrant shows him a portrait of her German lover in Chapter 17?

7. Why does Rutledge go to the Sommers' home the morning of the funeral?

8. Who is missing at the funeral in Chapter 20?

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

10. Who killed Colonel Charles Harris?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is split personality? What causes it? Who in this novel suffers split personality? How did it come about? What trauma brought it on? What are the personalities in this fractured person's mind? How does this character deal with this? Why does this character take an ax to Royston? Why does this character kill him/herself? What confession does this character make before dying?

Essay Topic 2

Who is Mrs. Davenant? How is she related to Wilton? What did Mrs. Davenant do during the war? How does this suggest to the reader that she is in love with Wilton? Is she? What evidence does she give to Rutledge regarding Wilton's relationship with Lettice Wood? How does this give Rutledge motive on Wilton's part for murder? Is Mrs. Davenant attempting to protect or prosecute Wilton?

Essay Topic 3

Who is Lizzie Pinter? Why is she traumatized? What does the doctor think of her condition? What does he do to help her? What does Rutledge find of Lizzie's in the meadow where Harris' body was found? What does Rutledge think Lizzie saw in the meadow? How does this change Rutledge's assumptions about the murder?

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