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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Melissa's sailboat?
(a) Kimba.
(b) Pendleton.
(c) Trophy Wife.
(d) Sundowner.

2. In "Nine: Scene of the Crime," what does Hare say he has found out from Melissa's bank manager?
(a) She had applied for a second mortgage on Clarence Keep.
(b) She had recently come into a very large sum of money.
(c) She was thinking about selling the Moonflower Hotel.
(d) She was trying to sell her shares in Algernon's company.

3. What item does Hare tell Pünd was used to strangle Melissa?
(a) The tie on her bathrobe.
(b) A length of wire.
(c) A curtain tie.
(d) A telephone cord.

4. In "The Ludendorff Diamond," where is the diamond kept?
(a) At a gem dealer's shop.
(b) On display in a museum.
(c) In an evidence lockup.
(d) In a private safe.

5. What idea of Susan's was included in the published version of Conway's book?
(a) Algernon's Peugeot.
(b) The tear in Melissa's wallpaper.
(c) The hit-and-run.
(d) The Turkish dagger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the Bach sheet music that Samantha Collins has on the piano when Pünd visits her house?

2. Where do Leonard and Samantha go when they tell Algernon that they are going to see a play?

3. What allusion made by Hare helps Pünd solve the case?

4. On page 114, who tells Pünd that Melissa was "too generous" in her feelings for Algernon?

5. Who does Derek say was present when Cecily called her parents before she disappeared?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Francis Pendleton claim he was on the evening that Melissa was killed, and how does Hare find out that he is lying?

2. What is Algernon's plan to get some of the inheritance money from his aunt's estate?

3. What happened to Atticus Pünd during World War II, and why did it cause him to lose faith in religion?

4. When Pünd meets Lance Gardner in "Seven: A Question of Time," what theory does Gardner offer about the murder?

5. In "The Owl," what serious accident almost befalls Susan, and who saves her?

6. In "Seventeen: At the Moonflower Hotel," what solution does Pünd offer to the mystery of why the phone cord was wiped clean of fingerprints?

7. In "Eight: Taken by the Tide," what causes Cox to finally tell the truth about his whereabouts on the night of the murder?

8. When Susan visits the Endicott home, what does she find out about why Derek was upset on the Friday of Parris's death?

9. What is in the letter that Francis rereads in "Secrets and Shadows"?

10. What two main reasons does Atticus Pünd give for the abolition of the death penalty in "Crime and Punishment"?

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