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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 does Stella Mawson appear to Dalgliesh?
2. What is Domenica's attitude towards the detectives?
3. When does Dr. Lorrimer change his will?
4. Who does Dalgliesh meet outside Mr. Lorrmier's home?
5. What does Stella say her publisher has for her?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Dr. Lorrimer.
2. Describe Brenda Pridmore's walk through the construction site.
3. What does Major Hunt tell Dalgliesh and Massingham about Dr. Lorrimer's will?
4. How does Dalgliesh sum up his investigation so far at the end of the first day?
5. Where does Brenda work the day after the discovery of the murder and what does she discuss with Director Howarth?
6. Describe Inspector Doyle.
7. Describe the scene at the chapel when Dalgliesh and Massingham arrive and what do they do.
8. What does Dalgliesh learn upon interviewing Inspector Doyle?
9. What does Dalgliesh learn from Domenica about Dr. Lorrimer?
10. What do several witnesses on a bus tell the detectives?
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
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?
Essay Topic 3
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.
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