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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Wilbraham bequeath to Lord Peter?
(a) Her stocks and bonds.
(b) A talking parrot.
(c) Her limousine.
(d) Her emeralds.

2. What does Lord Peter reveal as the cause of Jeff Deacon's death?
(a) A brain hemorrhage caused by a blow to the head.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Poison.
(d) The decibels of the bells during the New Year peal.

3. What kind of car does Lord Peter drive?
(a) A Daimler.
(b) A Ford.
(c) A Toyota.
(d) A Range Rover.

4. 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.

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

6. 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 having Deacon kidnapped.
(b) By putting Deacon on a Dutch cargo boat.
(c) By knocking Deacon unconscious and driving him far away.
(d) By bribing Deacon to leave.

7. How do the police try to get Will and James Thoday to confess to Jeff Deacon's murder?
(a) They put the brothers in a room with a hidden microphone.
(b) They lie about having an eyewitness to the crime.
(c) They tell each that the other has confessed.
(d) They claim to have evidence incriminating the brothers.

8. For what does Will Thoday initially mistake Jeff Deacon upon discovering him in the church?
(a) A choir member.
(b) A burglar.
(c) A rector.
(d) A maintenance man.

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

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

11. What are the emeralds wrapped in when they're discovered?
(a) Blue silk.
(b) Brown paper.
(c) An old newspaper.
(d) Cotton.

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

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

14. When Jeff Deacon tells Will Thoday he's come back to Fenchurch for money, what does Will think Deacon means?
(a) That Deacon's come to blackmail Mary.
(b) That Deacon has come to retrieve the emeralds.
(c) That Deacon wants to blackmail him.
(d) That Deacon plans to rob again.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Jean Legros turn out to be?

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

3. What is the legend of the Fenchurch St. Paul bells?

4. One year after Deacon's murder, how much deeper is the River Wale due to a rainy season?

5. What name is on Jean Legros's identity discs when they're found?

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