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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 new items is Lucifer ordering?

2. Why does Silas Coombe visit Lucifer?

3. What does the reader come to know about the Colyton Import business?

4. What is the item left at the murder scene?

5. Who is Devil?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Phyllida Tallent at Lady Huddlesford's dinner party?

2. Describe what happens when Lucifer visits Colyton and goes to Horatio Welham's manor.

3. Why is Lucifer changing all the locks for the manor?

4. What does Phyllida Tallent's sexual experience with Lucifer make her realize about Mary Anne's promise of secrecy about her love letters?

5. What is the information information that Lucifer keeps to himself?

6. What is the similarity between Phyllida Tallent and Lucifer?

7. Describe what happens between Lucifer and Phyllida Tallent in the setting of the shrubbery.

8. What are the series of incidents that take place at the manor after Lucifer finds the dead body of Horatio Welham?

9. Describe Phyllida Tallent's feelings towards Lucifer as seen towards the end of chapter two.

10. Why is Lucifer delighted to see Phyllida Tallent at the church?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lucifer, the hero, is seen as a pursuer. Explain with examples how Lucifer is the pursuer.

Essay Topic 2

Give a detailed account of the writing technique used by the author to describe how Lucifer and Phyllida Tallent carry out the murder investigation. Why does the author present it in this fashion? Does this writing technique add or take away from the story? Support your response with specific references to the novel.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay on how the world of this novel is a place where the rules of society, courtship and desire are often at odds.

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