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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What church service do Will and Mary Thoday miss?
(a) New Year's Eve service.
(b) The early service with Holy Communion.
(c) The Easter Sunday service.
(d) A baptismal service.

2. Which Fenchurch St. Paul parishioner has purchased several items identical to the one on which Lord Peter hoped to find fingerprints?
(a) Potty Peake.
(b) Mrs. Gates.
(c) Will Thoday.
(d) Emily.

3. What is the only area of Fenchurch St. Paul not covered in water?
(a) The church and rectory.
(b) The Red House.
(c) The market square.
(d) Lord Peter's home.

4. How is Will Thoday planning to get Jeff Deacon out of town until he becomes too ill with the flu to carry out his plan?
(a) By putting Deacon on a Dutch cargo boat.
(b) By knocking Deacon unconscious and driving him far away.
(c) By bribing Deacon to leave.
(d) By having Deacon kidnapped.

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

6. Who is able to give Potty Peake an alibi for the day of Jeff Deacon's murder?
(a) Potty's aged aunt.
(b) Reverend Venables.
(c) Mary Thoday.
(d) James Thoday.

7. Where does Lord Peter decide that the missing emeralds must be hidden?
(a) In the church venting system.
(b) Between the cherubims in the church roof.
(c) In a church bathroom.
(d) In the church in Reverend Venables' office.

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

9. What does Lord Peter have for dinner on Christmas Eve at the Rectory?
(a) Baked ham and sweet potatoes.
(b) Cold roast beef and trifle.
(c) Roast turkey and mashed potatoes.
(d) Cold cuts and baked beans.

10. How many children do Will and Mary Thoday have?
(a) One.
(b) None.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

11. What does James Thoday rent and use to give himself an alibi in the murder of Jeff Deacon?
(a) A motorbike.
(b) A hall for a party.
(c) A car.
(d) A computer.

12. Whose photo does Lord Peter send to Suzanne Legros to be identified?
(a) Arthur Cobbleigh's.
(b) Bunter's.
(c) Hezekiah Lavender's.
(d) Nobby Cranton's.

13. When Mrs. Wilbraham dies, what is clasped in her hand?
(a) A photo of her late husband.
(b) Her emeralds.
(c) A crucifix.
(d) A bottle of sleeping pills.

14. To where does Reverend Venables send the parish registers and all the church valuables to protect them from the flood?
(a) The church basement.
(b) The Rectory attic.
(c) The chuch roof.
(d) The top of the church bell tower.

15. Why does Emily, the Rectory maid, threaten to quit?
(a) She thinks she's getting paid a less than fair wage.
(b) She thinks the Venables want her to work too many hours.
(c) Bunter yells at her.
(d) She doesn't like Lord Peter staying at the Rectory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What brings Lord Peter and Bunter back to Fenchurch St. Paul a year after Deacon's murder?

2. What do the Fenchurch St. Paul newspapers say about the discovery of the missing Wilbraham emeralds?

3. What family owns the Red House?

4. When Will Thoday realizes the body in Lady Thorpe's grave is Jeff Deacon's, why doesn't he tell anyone?

5. What role does Bunter have while waiting out the flood in the church?

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