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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. Who does Guy say he and Ken were arguing over?

2. What does Lynley leave beside Helen's bedside?

3. How does Gabriella say Mrs. Whitlaw would have felt about her breakup with Kenneth?

4. What is Jean's daughter knitting for her father?

5. Where does Olivia find a job?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it easy to believe that Jimmy could have killed his own father?

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

3. What does Nkata uncover about Chris's alibi?

4. Describe Lynley and Havers meeting with Guy Mollinson in this section?

5. How does Havers meet the young girl in chapter eleven?

6. Why did Olivia decide to get back in contact with her mother?

7. What new information do the police find out about Chris and Olivia in Chapter 16?

8. How did Miriam help Ken into the Kent cricket team?

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

10. How did Olivia find out she had ALS?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How has Jean and Kenneth's difficult marriage effect Jimmy? Why does their relationship make it easy to believe Jimmy's confession of murder?

Essay Topic 2

Why is Olivia's past so important to the story? In what way does it soften how the reader feels about the murderer?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the author's writing style. How would you describe the author's prose style? What kind of vocabulary does he use? What meaning does the author's style give to the story?

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