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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. Who is Miss Williard?
2. What is Domenica's attitude towards the detectives?
3. About what does the rector's wife talk non-stop?
4. What does Doyle plan to do about his job?
5. What does Howarth tell Brenda Pridmore when she arrives at work?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Major Hunt tell Dalgliesh and Massingham about Dr. Lorrimer's will?
2. What do the detectives from in a locked drawer in Dr. Lorrimer's room?
3. Describe Maxim Howarth's thoughts about Domenica?
4. What do the detectives learn from Mr. Lorrimer?
5. Where do Dalgliesh and Massingham go at the opening of Book 4, Chapter 1 and what do they learn?
6. Who do Dalgliesh and Massingham meet upon arriving at the Lorrimer cottage and what do they learn from the person?
7. What do several witnesses on a bus tell the detectives?
8. Describe Dr. Lorrimer.
9. Describe Domenica Schofield.
10. What does Dalgliesh learn from Miss Willard?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The murder of Stella Mawson comes late in the book. Discuss the following:
1. How does the murder of Stella Mawson contribute to the basic plot line or not?
2. How different would Death of an Expert Witness be if Mawson has not been murdered?
3. How did you as a reader react to Mawson's murder? Explain thoroughly.
4. Most readers have heard of the term "gratuitous violence" when referring to violence that seems to be a part of a story for no good reason. Is this true of Mawson's murder? Explain your thoughts with examples.
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
One of the themes of the novel, as alluded to over and over, is the idea that the investigation into a crime disregards all claims to privacy. Discuss the following:
1. Trace and analyze the ways in which Dr. Lorrimer's privacy is violated after his death. Is this right and necessary? Is there any way to conduct an investigation to discover his murderer without violating his privacy?
2. Not only is Dr. Lorrimer's privacy violated, but so, too, is the privacy of several other characters. Discuss two other characters (besides Dr. Larrimer) whose privacy is violated in the course of the murder investigation. Is this invasion of privacy right? Necessary? Is there any way to conduct an investigation to discover the murderer without violating these people's privacy?
3. In the "real" world, many times the privacy of the victim's and perpetrator's families are also violated. Do you believe the police and press have the right to invade innocent people's privacy? What can be done to minimize the effects of this on the families of those involved in a crime? Do you think the criminal's family deserves as much respect to privacy as the victim's family? Why or why not? Do Nell and William deserve privacy?
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