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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Plain Hunting.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mrs. Wilbraham's relationship with the Thorpe family?
(a) She's their landlord.
(b) She's their next door neighbor.
(c) She's Mrs. Thorpe's sister.
(d) She's one of their cousins.

2. What does Will Thoday do with the money he withdraws from the bank on New Year's Eve?
(a) He buys a knife.
(b) He returns it to the bank when Legros is killed.
(c) He buys a gun.
(d) He buys a train ticket to Italy.

3. What is unusual about the condition of the hands of the corpse found in Lady Thorpe's grave?
(a) They have been tattooed.
(b) They have been painted.
(c) They have been severed.
(d) They have been covered in wax.

4. Who interviews Mrs. Gates?
(a) Superintendent Blundell.
(b) Lord Peter.
(c) Bunter.
(d) Reverend Venables.

5. Who besides Mr. Gotobed has keys to the coke-house in which Mr. Gotobed the church sexton keeps his gravedigging tools?
(a) Reverend Venables.
(b) Will Thoday.
(c) Emily.
(d) Mrs. Gates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What food does Mrs. Venables serve Lord Peter and Bunter when she first meets them?

2. On what day of the year does the book open?

3. In what room at the Rectory does Lord Peter study the French underclothing found on the dead stranger?

4. What flower grows in abundance in the Rectory garden at Easter?

5. From where does Suzanne Legros initially claim her husband is?

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