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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 is the date in "One: Sorrow"?

2. In "Two: Joy," what type of car does Magnus Pye drive?

3. When was Brent, the groundsman, at Pye Hall born?

4. In "Three: A Girl," what time does Francis Pye say that she left London?

5. In "Four: A Boy," in Mary's journal, who did she say that she thought stole Dr. Redwing's Physostigmine?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Three: A Girl," what does Henrietta want to ask her husband?

2. In "One: Sorrow," what does Jeff Weaver notice at the funeral?

3. In "Courch End, London," how does Susan feel about the Atticus Pund novels and the author of them?

4. In "Two: Joy," what does Pund's doctor tell him?

5. In "Six: Gold," why did Matthew settle in Cardiff?

6. How did Dr. Emilia Redwing remember that Mary Blakiston died?

7. In "Three: A Girl," what does Jack Dartford tell Inspector Chubb and Pund about himself and what he and Frances Pye were doing in London?

8. In "Two: Joy," why did Dr. Redwing put her father in a nursing home?

9. In "Five: Silver," what is Brent's house like?

10. In "Four: A Boy," what do Pund and Fraser do when Joy walks back to tell Dr. Redwing that the men are there to see her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Charles decides to kill Susan when she discovers that he killed Conway. Why does Charles decide to kill Susan? Why is it easier for him to kill Susan after having killed Conway?

Essay Topic 2

Susan feels judged by her sister when she visits her. How are the lives of the two sisters different? How does Katie feel about the life she has lead? What does she want for Susan? Why does Susan feel that Katie is judging her by wanting her to have the same type of life that Katie has?

Essay Topic 3

Conway took elements of Magpie Murders from real life. What are some elements in Magpie Murders that Conway took from real life? What is revealed about art imitating life?

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