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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What food does Will Thoday take to Jeff Deacon while he imprisons Deacon in the church belfry?
(a) Fried chicken and biscuits.
(b) Pizza and cola.
(c) Bread and cheese and beer.
(d) Eggs and Bacon.

2. What does Nobby Cranton leave behind in the belfry when he flees it after finding Jeff Deacon?
(a) His cigarette lighter.
(b) His belt buckle.
(c) His handkerchief.
(d) Deacon's cipher.

3. Why do Mary Thoday and Will Thoday leave town?
(a) To remarry when they learn their union isn't legal.
(b) To flee arrest for the theft of the emeralds.
(c) To dispose of the stolen emeralds.
(d) They fear Nobby Cranton will murder them.

4. Who asks Lord Peter to warn Fenchurch St. Paul that the sluice gates are giving way?
(a) Reverend Venables.
(b) Hezekiah Lavender.
(c) Will Thoday.
(d) James Thoday.

5. What does Emily do to the object from which Lord Peter hopes to get fingerprints?
(a) She washes it, cleaning all the fingerprints off it.
(b) She dusts it, obliterating any potential prints.
(c) She drops it and breaks it.
(d) She gives it to a traveling salesman.

6. The ringers of which church bell tend to live to ripe old age?
(a) Gaude.
(b) Tailor Paul.
(c) Batty Thomas.
(d) Dimity.

7. In France, why does Jeff Deacon pretend he's lost his ability to speak?
(a) He speaks French with a British accent.
(b) He doesn't want anyone to find out he's German.
(c) He doesn't want anyone to question him about his past.
(d) He has a lisp and is embarrassed by it.

8. What name is on Jean Legros's identity discs when they're found?
(a) Arthur Cobbleigh.
(b) Stephen Driver.
(c) Nobby Cranton.
(d) Janis Lewis.

9. Who do the police initially charge with the murder of Jean Legros?
(a) Mary Thoday.
(b) Nobby Cranton.
(c) Mrs. Wilbraham.
(d) James Thoday.

10. What do the Fenchurch St. Paul newspapers say about the discovery of the missing Wilbraham emeralds?
(a) That Mary Thoday is the thief.
(b) Nothing, the story is kept out of the papers.
(c) That Scotland Yard has found them.
(d) That Hilary Thorpe has inherited them.

11. Who buys Mary Thoday a parrot?
(a) Emily.
(b) James Thoday.
(c) Nobby Cranton.
(d) Will Thoday.

12. Which Fenchurch St. Paul farmer still cures his own bacon?
(a) Jay Dutton.
(b) Harry Gotobed.
(c) Mr. Ashton.
(d) Will Thoday.

13. What makes the police and Lord Peter certain that Will Thoday could not have buried Jeff Deacon in Lady Thorpe's grave?
(a) Will has an airtight alibi for the night of the murder.
(b) Will is ill and weak from influenza at the time of the murder.
(c) The evidence does not implicate Will as the killer.
(d) Will is not a violent man.

14. Who kills Arthur Cobbleigh?
(a) Emily.
(b) Mrs. Gates.
(c) Jeff Deacon
(d) James Thoday.

15. How long do the villagers of Fenchurch St. Paul live in the church and Rectory before the waters recede?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Six weeks.
(c) A month.
(d) Eight days.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Wilbraham do once her necklace is returned to her?

2. What does Reverend Venables ask his parishioners to bring to the church in baskets during the flood?

3. What does Lord Peter organize while waiting out the flood in the church?

4. What does Lord Peter have for dinner on Christmas Eve at the Rectory?

5. Whose photo does Lord Peter send to Suzanne Legros to be identified?

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