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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. In what does Dr. Lorrimer get Brenda interested?
2. What does Cliff Bradley assert over and over to Dalgliesh?
3. What is Middlemass's role in the halftime entertainment at the village concert the night of the murder of Dr. Lorrimer?
4. Who is Inspector Blakelock?
5. What do the men discuss at the murder scene?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Brenda Pridmore talk about with her parents at breakfast and what is their reaction?
2. What upsets Director Howarth about Dr. Lorrimer?
3. Describe Stella Mawson.
4. What does Susan Bradley ask of Paul Middlemass and what does he do about the request?
5. Describe the conversation between Angela Foley and Adam Dalgliesh.
6. How do Angela Foley and Stella Mawson come to be living together?
7. Describe Adam Dalgliesh.
8. What does Howarth talk to Dr. Lorrimer about and what is the outcome?
9. Describe the conversation between Brenda Pridmore and Adam Dalgliesh.
10. How helpful is the interview with Cliff Bradley for Dalgliesh?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
It seems that Dr. Kerrison should know a lot about crime and how a detective investigates a crime scene to be able to avoid some of the mistakes he makes that leads to his exposure as the murderer. Discuss the following:
1. Trace and analyze throughout the book all the mistakes Dr. Kerrison makes. Are they stupid mistakes or is Dalgliesh so good that Dalgliesh is able to pick up on very tiny clues?
2. Sometimes it almost seems that a criminal wants to get caught. Do you think this is partially why Dr. Kerrison makes the mistakes he does? Why or why not?
3. Dalgliesh states that Kerrison almost seems relieved when the detectives drive up to arrest him. Why do you think this is?
Essay Topic 2
It is essential that details in a murder mystery be accurate and adequate to fulfill the plot. Discuss the following:
1. Trace and analyze the plot of Death of an Expert Witness. Explain what constitutes the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement or resolution. What details add to each aspect of the plot?
2. Analyze James's use of details. Where are there too much or too little details? What would be the consequence of too many details in a murder mystery? Of too little? Explain your ideas fully using examples from the text.
3. Do the details throughout the text support the resolution? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
Brenda Pridmore's character serves at least two functions in the novel. Discuss the following:
1. Analyze Brenda Pridmore's character. What are her strengths, weaknesses and personality? Is she a sympathetic character?
2. One of Brenda Pridmore's function in the story is to be as "ignorant" as the reader about criminal investigations and evidence gathering in order to ask questions that the reader might ask and thus educate the reader. How well does Brenda Pridmore serve in this function?
3. A second function for the character of Brenda Pridmore is to serve as a literary foil to several of the character. Define the term "literary foil" and analyze how Pridmore serves as a foil and to what characters and how she does so.
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