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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 Montgomery find when he breaks into Charlie's desk?
(a) Letters from his lover.
(b) Embarrassing pictures.
(c) Hundreds of dollars.
(d) Notes from his mother.

2. How does Montgomery react to Charlie's questioning?
(a) He becomes very apologetic.
(b) He becomes very defensive.
(c) He denies everything.
(d) He gets angry.

3. What is Montgomery afraid to do after he finds blood on his fingers?
(a) To think about what he has done.
(b) To call Coolgrange.
(c) To go home.
(d) To go back to the United States.

4. What have the police done in their version of his confession?
(a) Make a murderer out of him.
(b) Make him look innocent.
(c) Pick out all his faults.
(d) Make him look like a crazy person.

5. What is the real reason both counsels are making Montgomery offers?
(a) To prevent evidence from being heard.
(b) To save the victim's mother pain.
(c) To get the case over quickly.
(d) To save everyone aggravation and paperwork.

Short Answer Questions

1. Did Montgomery really mean to kill his victim?

2. Who arrives at Wally's Pub as Montgomery sits there after fleeing his crime?

3. How does Montgomery feel about this situation with the stolen painting and a hostage?

4. Who is watching Montgomery as he forces his victim into the car?

5. What does Montgomery do after tossing out his breakfast when Charlie leaves?

Short Essay Questions

1. The lawyers on both sides of Montgomery's case want to plead the case out. Montgomery believes this is to protect Charlie French and Max Molyneaux and is against the idea. Why wouldn't Montgomery want to protect these two men?

2. Charlie was a dear friend of Montgomery's parents and tells Montgomery of his mother when she was younger. Charlie says that many men adored Montgomery's mother and she was a loved by all except her husband. Why would Charlie tell Montgomery this?

3. How is Montgomery's recurring dream of being falsely accused of murder an example of foreshadowing for the situation he finds himself in at the current time?

4. For what reasons would the drop of blood Montgomery discovers on his finger cause him to go into a paranoid state?

5. Montgomery jokes around when he is arrested, but feels intimidated by being confined in possession of the police. What are Montgomery's values?

6. Montgomery describes his fondness for his old family friend Charlie French, yet at the same time he doesn't forgive Charlie for a previous situation. What does this inner conflict tell the reader about Montgomery?

7. It is no secret that Montgomery is angry at the world and feels he is owed something. How would killing this innocent person be revenge enough on the world for his alter ego Billy Bunter or Montgomery himself?

8. As he is leaving the scene of his crime, Montgomery realizes "that the fat, foul-mouthed, inner man has burst out." What he is talking about?

9. As the maid fights back at Montgomery after he shoves her in the car, he says he sees her as a "cornered heroine in a melodrama." Do you think this is an appropriate description of his victim?

10. What does Montgomery mean when he says that he can't say he didn't mean to kill her, only that he doesn't know precisely when he began to mean it?

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