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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. In "Fourteen: Hit-and-Run," whom does Leonard find waiting for him at his kitchen table, smoking a cigarette?

2. When Susan arrives at Heath House in "Back to Westleton," what is Martin holding?

3. In the hospital, whom does Nancy Mitchell confirm is her baby's father?

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

5. When Pünd interviews Leonard Collins, what question does Leonard find "very strange" (124)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What two clues lead Pünd to solve the puzzle of the conversation that Cox overheard at Clarence Keep on the night Melissa was killed?

2. What two lies does Susan realize that the Williamses have told her?

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

4. Why has Melissa gone to see the Gardners, and what is their reaction to her announcement?

5. In "Thirteen: Post-Mortem," what three main reasons does Pünd offer for not believing that Francis killed himself?

6. What does Leonard Collins tell the detectives about Melissa's phone call to him shortly before her death?

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

8. In "Seventeen: At the Moonflower Hotel," what solution does Pünd offer to the mystery of who killed Francis?

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

10. What does Francis find missing in his wife's bedroom, and what happens as a result?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the motif of justice in Moonflower Murders. Be sure to support your analysis with textual evidence.

Essay Topic 2

To what extent do you believe that creators are responsible for the real-world impacts of their work? Write an essay that uses textual evidence to analyze this motif in Moonflower Murders and then provides your own commentary about the validity of this idea.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay that compares and contrasts Susan and Katie. Make a claim about the significance of their similarities and differences, and support your analysis with textual evidence.

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