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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. When Susan investigates the "Wilcox" that Khan mentioned, who does the man turn out to be?

2. Susan wonders, on page 254, whether Eloise is Aiden's "acolyte." What is she wondering about Eloise?

3. What does Melissa say she was angry about on the Thursday before Aiden and Cecily's wedding?

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

5. What is implied about why Algernon's aunt disinherited him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What crisis is Nancy Miller facing, and what has she decided to do about it?

10. In "Clarence Keep," how does Melissa behave as she leaves her house, and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about how believable the timing of Andreas's arrival in England is within the context of the novel. Use evidence from the novel to defend a claim about coincidence and timing in this novel's "universe" and then analyze the significance of your own conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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.

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