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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 NOT the issue with Peter Usher's paintings at the gallery?
(a) They are too avant-garde.
(b) They are priced incorrectly.
(c) They are not selling.
(d) People don't like them.

2. What does Anita want Samantha to do for herself?
(a) Get into show business.
(b) Get a better job.
(c) Go to college.
(d) Buy a car.

3. What do they all do once the policeman leaves Peter's house?
(a) Have a drink.
(b) Give up on the scam.
(c) Laugh.
(d) Call a lawyer.

4. What is Lampeth's business with Lipsey?
(a) Detective work to find a painting.
(b) Black market art.
(c) Detective work to find a missing family member.
(d) Smuggling of art.

5. How does the baker look at the girl who comes in for fresh bread in the opening of the story?
(a) Angrily.
(b) Suspiciously.
(c) Hauntingly.
(d) Lustfully.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dee ask the proprietor to tell her?

2. Why does Lipsey choose an inexpensive hotel room to stay in during his investigation?

3. What is the subject of the painting of the contest between Peter and Mad Mitch?

4. How does Peter get what he took from the supply room back to London?

5. What had Modigliani done with most of his paintings that he painted while he was high?

Short Essay Questions

1. What party do Samantha and Tom attend and what crucial event happens there?

2. Where does Dee's search for the painting begin and why is it a bust?

3. What lecture does Peter give his art students and why?

4. Why does Peter go to work at Meunier's?

5. Why does Lord Cardwell have to sell his collection of art?

6. What does Julian find when he returns home from selling Sarah's car, and how does he use it to his advantage?

7. What information does the rabbi give Dee that will help her further her search?

8. How is mystery set up almost immediately?

9. What will Anne's role be in the forgery scam?

10. Who are Charles Lampeth and Lord Cardwell? What is their relationship to each other?

(see the answer keys)

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