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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. How do Brenda's parents feel about her job?
2. What is Middlemass's role in the halftime entertainment at the village concert the night of the murder of Dr. Lorrimer?
3. Why does Stella hire Angela?
4. What is Dalgliesh trying to accurately understand?
5. What does Cliff Bradley assert over and over to Dalgliesh?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Susan Bradley ask of Paul Middlemass and what does he do about the request?
2. Describe the conversation between Inspector Blakelock and Adam Dalgliesh and what Dalgliesh seems to be quite concerned about during the questioning.
3. Who arrives at the lab before any one else and what surprises one of them?
4. What upsets Director Howarth about Dr. Lorrimer?
5. How helpful is the interview with Cliff Bradley for Dalgliesh?
6. How is the staff at Hoggatt's Lab sorted for who needs to stay and who may go home?
7. What does Howarth do after Dalgliesh arrives and what does Dalgliesh learn about the case?
8. What does Nell do after her father has left the house?
9. Describe the conversation between Brenda Pridmore and Adam Dalgliesh.
10. Describe Angela Foley.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
Angela Foley's grandmother has nothing to do with Angela as Angela is growing up and even allows the young girl to go to an orphanage when her mother dies. Discuss the following:
1. Does it make sense for the grandmother to take her dislike of her daughter out on her granddaughter? Why or why not. Is it ethical or moral? Or is it an ethical or moral issue? Explain.
2. How do you think it impacts Angela as a child for her grandmother to reject her especially after Angela's mother dies? How do you think this may have influenced her choices as an adult?
3. What personality traits do you think Angela holds as a result of being caught in the cross-hairs of the feud between her mother and grandmother?
4. Do you think Angela is capable of murder? Why or why not?
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