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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Covey important to Lucifer?
(a) Because Covey can identify Lucifer.
(b) Because Covey has some information.
(c) Because Covey is Lucifer's friend.
(d) Because Covey knows the murderer.

2. Why is Phyllida Tallent very angry when Lucifer meets her in the woods?
(a) Because she is shot at.
(b) Because her bonnet is lost.
(c) Because her dress is torn.
(d) Because she does not like Lucifer kissing her.

3. Why does Silas Coombe visit Lucifer?
(a) He wants some of Horatio Welham's books.
(b) He wants to see the manor.
(c) He wants to have tea with Lucifer.
(d) He wants to know where Phyllida Tallent is.

4. Where does Lucifer leave the letter Horatio Welham writes?
(a) In Somerset.
(b) In Devon.
(c) In England.
(d) In Musbery.

5. Who is the sole beneficiary of Horatio Welham's estate?
(a) Mary Anne.
(b) Robert.
(c) Phyllida Tallent.
(d) Lucifer.

6. Who among the following men attended the church service on Sunday?
(a) Sir Jasper.
(b) Silas Coombe.
(c) Grisby.
(d) Appleby.

7. What does the reader come to know about the Colyton Import business?
(a) That it is a legalized smuggling business.
(b) That it is a an illegal business.
(c) That it is a weapons business.
(d) That it is a fishing business.

8. What does the beneficiary of Horatio Welham's estate decide to do with the estate?
(a) Donate it to charity.
(b) Make it a home.
(c) Demolish and it and build a new one.
(d) Sell it.

9. Who is Devil?
(a) Lucifer's middle cousin.
(b) Lucifer's eldest cousin.
(c) Lucifer's youngest cousin.
(d) Phyllida Tallent's eldest cousin.

10. Why does Lucifer trap Phyllida Tallent between him and the shrubbery?
(a) To hide from someone approaching.
(b) To kiss her.
(c) To tell her how dangerous things are for her.
(d) To make out with her.

11. Why does Phyllida Tallent not tell Lucifer everything about the day of the murder?
(a) Because her father tells her not to.
(b) Because she is worried about getting into trouble.
(c) Because if she does, she will break her promise of secrecy to her friend.
(d) Because she does not trust Lucifer.

12. What is Lucifer trying to make Phyllida Tallent understand on their way home from the manor?
(a) That he wants to kiss her.
(b) That she tells him everything she knows about the murder day.
(c) That she should be very careful when alone.
(d) That she should have a male escort.

13. Who sexually assaults Phyllida Tallent?
(a) Robert.
(b) Percy.
(c) Silas Coombe.
(d) A local.

14. Of all the characters giving alibis, which character's alibi deserves special attention?
(a) Mr. Crabbs.
(b) Cedric Fortemain.
(c) Mary Anne.
(d) Robert.

15. What do Lucifer and Phyllida Tallent see on their way back from the church?
(a) A gentleman leaving the manor.
(b) A light in Lucifer's drawing room.
(c) Someone entering the manor.
(d) Someone talking to Covey.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the assumption Phyllida Tallent makes about Lucifer running errands together with her?

2. Who in the party is being watched with a lot of suspicion?

3. What brings Lucifer and Phyllida Tallent physically closer to each other in chapters six and seven?

4. Whom does Phyllida Tallent decide to check on first after the tea is over?

5. What is the "storm" in chapter eight a representation of?

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