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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 does Chris want to do instead taking up Olivia's offer of sex?
(a) Go to the library.
(b) Read poetry.
(c) Go for dinner.
(d) Go to the fair.

2. What does Jimmy like to make models of?
(a) Trains.
(b) Airplanes.
(c) Tanks.
(d) Ships.

3. What does Helen do for Lynley that she has never done before?
(a) Buys him clothes.
(b) Dresses up for him.
(c) Makes him a cup of tea.
(d) Makes him dinner.

4. Why does Lynley's boss threaten to take him off the case?
(a) He has got nowhere near solving the case.
(b) He has leaked too much information to the press.
(c) He has upset too many people.
(d) His mind is elsewhere.

5. Who interrupts the argument between Lynley and Helen?
(a) Miriam.
(b) Lynley's valet.
(c) Helen's valet.
(d) Havers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Olivia say Chris should find work as?

2. Where does Mrs. Whitelaw claim to have been?

3. What does Havers discover when she arrives home on Saturday night?

4. Who does Olivia say she visited the night of Kenneth's death?

5. What does Jimmy take from the potting shed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it difficult for Lynley to believe that Jimmy is the murderer?

2. What information does Mollinson give Lynley about the case in this section?

3. Why does Lynley take Jimmy to New Scotland Yard?

4. How did Olivia find out she had ALS?

5. How does Nkata help Lynley and Havers at the beginning of chapter ten?

6. What new leads does Lynley find in Chapter 14?

7. What new information does Lynley find out from Miriam in Chapter 18?

8. How did Olivia show her anger at Chris after the cat operation?

9. In what way could it be said that Kenneth's pride was responsible for his death?

10. How does Lynley act during his dinner with Havers?

(see the answer keys)

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