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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 is split personality?

2. Why does Royston tell Rutledge Sally Davenant chose to become a nurse during the war?

3. What does Rutledge tell Lettice Wood Mark Wilton might do to deal with his guilty conscious in Chapter 19?

4. Who remains Rutledge's prime suspect in the investigation as Chapter 12 draws to a close?

5. Who does Forrest believe is the source of Mavers' pension?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is Harris murdered? Where does Rutledge believe he has found the murder weapon? Where was Harris' body found? What does Rutledge find in the area where the body was found? How does this point Rutledge to a possible witness? Does this witness help Rutledge pinpoint the murderer? What does this witness prove about the murder in Rutledge's mind?

Essay Topic 2

What does Lettice reveal about her relationship with Harris? How did this changing relationship lead to a fight between Harris and Lettice? Harris and Wilton? How could this argument have been motive for murder? Is it? Why does Lettice fail to tell this story to Rutledge until late in the novel? What is Lettice trying to hide? Has Lettice done something wrong? Has Harris? What might the public have though had this truth come out more publicly?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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