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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 was the victim's real last name?
(a) Stanton
(b) Stanning
(c) Stanislaus
(d) Stanley

2. What is the name of the old house?
(a) Green Gables
(b) Ponderosa
(c) Monkswell Manor
(d) Miragnac

3. Mollie asks Mrs. Boyle about her former job as a:
(a) Photographer
(b) Magistrate
(c) Reporter
(d) Architect

4. Who discovers that the phone is dead?
(a) Mrs. Boyle
(b) Miss Casewell
(c) Giles
(d) Major Metcalf

5. Christopher says that he always finds policemen to be:
(a) Polite
(b) Rude
(c) Arrogance
(d) Attractive

Short Answer Questions

1. What piece of furniture seems to be the most used on the set?

2. What poem does Christopher recite?

3. Who is the third guest to arrive?

4. Giles is afraid that they will run out of what item?

5. Who makes rude comments about Christopher?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mrs. Boyle claim that Mollie knows nothing about housework?

2. Why is Christopher Wren so upset when it is suggested that he might be the oldest Corrigan child? What is Wren's confession to Mollie?

3. What is the purpose of reenacting the scene just before Mrs. Boyle was killed? Would it make more sense to reenact the crime? Explain.

4. What is the first issue brought up by Mrs. Boyle? How does Giles reply to the complaint?

5. Mollie makes frequent references to an unhappy past even though she claims to have had a happy childhood. To what is Mollie referring and how does it relate to the story?

6. What is the real reason Miss Casewell returned to England, and more specifically, Monkswell Manor?

7. Trotter finally manages to get some information from Miss Casewell. How long has Miss Casewell been in England? Where was she staying before she returned to the United Kingdom?

8. How does the author describe Christopher Wren?

9. Christopher Wren tells Mollie that she is not at all what he had pictured. What had Christopher expected of Mollie?

10. Mollie and Giles have a lovers' quarrel in the kitchen, witnessed in part by Paravicini. What is the cause for the quarrel? How is it resolved?

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