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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 old is Glyn when she picks out Elena's coffin?

2. When Lynley visits with Randie Webberly, where does Lynley catch up with her?

3. When Lynley visits Helen at Pen's home, where do Helen and Lynley make plans to go the next night

4. Who tells Lynley that Elena never wanted to be part of the Deaf culture?

5. Who cares for Barbara Havers's mother while Barbara is at work?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 3, why is Helen Clyde staying at her sister's house?

2. As Glyn is picking out Elena's coffin, what does she realize?

3. How did Elena's difficulties in adjusting to life at Cambridge manifest themselves?

4. Why did Pen originally decide to become a stay-at-home mother?

5. Why did Anthony Weaver's assistant start working for Weaver?

6. As the story opens, one of the characters has decided to take up drawing and painting again. Why?

7. According to Terrence Cuff, what is frequented by people living in town but not by university students?

8. The morning that she came upon Elena's body, what had Sarah Gordon decided to do?

9. As the story opens and Elena is running, why is she running alone?

10. What does the preliminary report into Elena's murder state?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare the characteristics, roles, loyalties, and agendas of the following people in the story: Sarah Gordon, Justine Weaver, Glyn Weaver, and Rosalyn Simpson.

Essay Topic 2

Two characters in the story were involved in the deaf community at Cambridge University, Gareth Randolph and Elena Weaver. Compare how being deaf affected each of these characters in terms of their relationships, involvement, and acceptance of being deaf. What could each of these characters have learned from the other to enable both of them to better adapt to the reality of their circumstances?

Essay Topic 3

There are two characters introduced in the story who are murdered. Identify these two women and then compare their murders. Be sure to indicate where each character died, how each character died, who was responsible for each character's death, and what impact on the overall plot each character's death had. What could have or should have been learned from each of these deaths by the other characters?

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