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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's counsel want to do?
(a) Accept a plea bargain.
(b) Hire another lawyer.
(c) Quit.
(d) Plead for insanity.

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

3. As Montgomery is fleeing the scene, what does he feel he needs to do?
(a) Call his wife.
(b) Visit his cousin.
(c) Wash his hands.
(d) Call Anna Behrens.

4. What does Montgomery hit his victim with?
(a) His hands.
(b) The painting.
(c) A hammer.
(d) A book.

5. Charlie has a dinner party and does not invite Montgomery. How does Montgomery feel about this?
(a) He is thrilled because he finds them boring.
(b) He gets angry and confrontational.
(c) He doesn't care.
(d) He is insulted and feels Charlie is avoiding him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What important person does Montgomery believe is being protected, besides Charlie?

2. What is Montgomery's reasoning for killing his victim as he tells it to the police?

3. Why can't Montgomery really think about his crime?

4. What does Charlie realize about Montgomery as he gets ready to leave for work?

5. Why does Charlie begin to question Montgomery about his crime?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. Why does Montgomery take the time to pay attention to the details of his victim's face before hitting her with the hammer?

3. 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?

4. According to Montgomery, he feels that now that he is no longer drinking alcohol he "has woken up to a hangover with a vengeance." What does Montgomery mean by saying this?

5. After reading the version of the confession written by the police, Montgomery says "they have made a murderer out of him." What is the irony in this statement?

6. 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?

7. 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?

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

9. 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?

10. Montgomery speaks of his wife visiting him in jail. He is annoyed with her calm demeanor and ability to make decisions without him. Why might these characteristics upset Montgomery?

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