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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Montgomery feel his trip will appear to others?
(a) He is lucky to be going.
(b) He must be very wealthy.
(c) He is stressed and needs a break.
(d) He is running away.

2. How does Montgomery feel about the appearance of Dublin?
(a) It is cleaner than it used to be.
(b) The city has improved greatly.
(c) It has deteriorated since his last visit.
(d) It looks exactly the same.

3. What does Maolseachlainn believe the fight between Montgomery and Dorothy was about?
(a) Money.
(b) Montgomery not visiting enough.
(c) Montgomery being a drunk.
(d) Dorothy being a drunk.

4. Montgomery makes a side comment to the court expressing his surprise in something. What is he surprised about?
(a) The effort people are making to save him from jail.
(b) The continuous mentioning of paintings in his case.
(c) The amount of evidence against him.
(d) The things the witnesses are saying about him.

5. What does Montgomery say words are?
(a) An inconvenience.
(b) A luxury.
(c) A necessity.
(d) Useless.

6. What does Montgomery tell the judge about the plan of this crime?
(a) That it wasn't a real plan.
(b) That it was meticulously calculated.
(c) That it was a joke.
(d) That it wasn't his idea.

7. What has actually happened to these missing items?
(a) They were stolen in a robbery.
(b) They got burned in a fire.
(c) They were put into a vault.
(d) His mother sold them.

8. How did Montgomery's father die?
(a) With his whole family by his side.
(b) Alone, while no one was looking.
(c) On the streets, homeless.
(d) In a hospital with plenty of doctors.

9. Where does Montgomery wake up after a night of drinking?
(a) In his own bed.
(b) At Whitewater.
(c) At Coolgrange.
(d) At a motel.

10. What about the stable hand shocks Montgomery?
(a) Her strength.
(b) Her kindness towards his mother.
(c) Her intellect.
(d) Her work ethic.

11. Where does the taxi driver take Montgomery when he leaves Whitewater?
(a) To a local motel.
(b) To a place where his mother has lodgers.
(c) To the airport.
(d) To Coolgrange.

12. How does Montgomery describe his father's appearance?
(a) Stocky and fair.
(b) Tall and muscular.
(c) Extremely overweight.
(d) A thin frame with pale features.

13. Who does Montgomery think of when he goes into the wine cellar?
(a) His best friend.
(b) His wife.
(c) His father.
(d) His first girlfriend.

14. What gives Montgomery a feeling of grief as he stands in his mother's kitchen?
(a) He thinks of his dead father.
(b) He misses an old friend.
(c) He realizes his mother is sick.
(d) He misses his wife.

15. What happens when Montgomery does not repay his loan?
(a) Montgomery is arrested.
(b) Montgomery's child is kidnapped.
(c) Randolph's ear is chopped off and sent to Montgomery.
(d) Montgomery is kidnapped.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Randolph?

2. How is Montgomery's lawyer described?

3. How does Montgomery describe his mother?

4. What is Maolseachlainn's trick in the courtroom?

5. Who does Montgomery meet when he goes outside after his tour of the house?

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