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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 accounting does Mawson give Dalgliesh?
2. Who lives at Sprogg's Cottage?
3. How does Dr. Kerrison appear as he is answering Dalgliesh's questions?
4. What does Brenda's mother insist that Brenda tell the police?
5. What does Stella probably know?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do several witnesses on a bus tell the detectives?
2. What does Dalgliesh learn from Domenica about Dr. Lorrimer?
3. Why is Brenda Pridmore's mother upset and what does she want Brenda to tell Dalgliesh?
4. What do the detectives from in a locked drawer in Dr. Lorrimer's room?
5. What does Dalgliesh learn from Miss Willard?
6. What does Dalgliesh ask Domenica and Howarth and what astounds the detectives with Domenica's reply?
7. Describe Inspector Doyle.
8. What does Dalgliesh learn upon interviewing Inspector Doyle?
9. What does Major Hunt tell Dalgliesh and Massingham about Dr. Lorrimer's will?
10. How does Dalgliesh sum up his investigation so far at the end of the first day?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Most of the action of the story is based upon the main plot--that of finding Dr. Lorrimer's murderer. However, there are a couple minor sub-plots in the novel. Discuss the following:
1. What is a sub-plot? Do you think most works of fiction have at least one sub-plot? Why or why not?
2. Identify 2 subplots in Death of an Expert Witness. Identify the parts of the sub-plots you examine such as exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution and whether the sub-plot contains all these elements.
3. What do you think is the purpose of the 2 sub-plots you identify? Discuss with examples from the text.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Death of an Expert Witness is one book in a series of novels involving Adam Dalgliesh. Discuss the following.
1. What are two advantages of writing and reading a series of novels about the same characters? Use examples.
2. What are two disadvantages of writing and reading a series of novels about the same characters? Use examples.
3. Do you prefer to read a standalone book, or a series of books with the same main characters? Explain your response.
4. Do you think it is easier or more difficult to write a standalone book versus one in a series? Explain your answer.
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