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

2. What is the fantasy that Montgomery has about Charlie?
(a) That they get married.
(b) That he is his servant and owes Charlie his life for saving him.
(c) That Charlie buys him a new identity.
(d) That Charlie sweeps him away to a faraway place.

3. What does Montgomery says he was thinking about on his way to Whitewater?
(a) That it was a beautiful day for a ride.
(b) He couldn't wait to see Anna.
(c) Nothing, he was just enjoying the ride.
(d) The crime he was about to commit.

4. How does Montgomery feel about his situation after Charlie leaves for work?
(a) He is insulted.
(b) He is very anxious.
(c) He is afraid of being alone.
(d) He is excited and disgusted.

5. What does Montgomery think the only thing that will make up for what he's done is?
(a) Being freed to make up for his crime by doing good for others.
(b) Bringing his victim back to life.
(c) Going to jail for the rest his life.
(d) His dying also.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why won't Montgomery sign the typed confession the police hand him?

2. Why do numerous officers take Montgomery's confession?

3. What does Montgomery hit his victim with?

4. How does Charlie always like to think about himself in reference to Montgomery's family?

5. Who does Montgomery's mother leave Coolgrange to when she dies?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Using your knowledge of Montgomery's history with women, why would he choose the "Portrait of the Woman with Gloves" rather than another?

4. 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?

5. 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?

6. 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?

7. 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?

8. How is Montgomery foreshadowing his guilt by saying he had been "unknowingly leaving behind a trail of evidence rather than his troubles" as he leaves the village?

9. What clues are presented during the dinner party that Montgomery's fantasy relationship with Charlie may be more realistic than the reader is led to think?

10. As Charlie cooks breakfast, Montgomery says he feels a "weepy regard" for Charlie. Why would he feel this way?

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