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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. Where does Hugh claim he was on the night of the murder?

2. What is Chris building in Little Venice?

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

4. Who does Chris admit he was with the night Ken died?

5. How does Jimmy almost die?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Olivia's dream about the National Front?

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

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

4. How does Olivia imagine her reunion with her mother?

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

6. How did Olivia find out she had ALS?

7. How the author describe Hadiya's father?

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

9. How does Jimmy react when Lynley finally gets to him?

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

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

What does the novel say about sexuality? In terms of the this theme what does Olivia's prostitution of her herself and the way she teases her father say about sexual repression? In what way is sexual repression often connected with British society?

Essay Topic 3

What does the novel suggest happens to people that are neglected by either friends or family? What are the difference between characters in the story who have been helped by others and characters in the story who have been neglected?

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