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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What kind of car does Lord Peter drive?
(a) A Range Rover.
(b) A Toyota.
(c) A Ford.
(d) A Daimler.
2. Whose photo does Lord Peter send to Suzanne Legros to be identified?
(a) Bunter's.
(b) Hezekiah Lavender's.
(c) Arthur Cobbleigh's.
(d) Nobby Cranton's.
3. What does Lord Peter have for dinner on Christmas Eve at the Rectory?
(a) Baked ham and sweet potatoes.
(b) Roast turkey and mashed potatoes.
(c) Cold roast beef and trifle.
(d) Cold cuts and baked beans.
4. Why do Mary Thoday and Will Thoday leave town?
(a) To dispose of the stolen emeralds.
(b) To flee arrest for the theft of the emeralds.
(c) To remarry when they learn their union isn't legal.
(d) They fear Nobby Cranton will murder them.
5. Who asks Lord Peter to warn Fenchurch St. Paul that the sluice gates are giving way?
(a) Hezekiah Lavender.
(b) Reverend Venables.
(c) James Thoday.
(d) Will Thoday.
6. 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 ill and weak from influenza at the time of the murder.
(b) The evidence does not implicate Will as the killer.
(c) Will has an airtight alibi for the night of the murder.
(d) Will is not a violent man.
7. Who does Mrs. Wilbraham designate as Hilary Thorpe's trustee in handling the affairs of her estate?
(a) Mrs. Gates.
(b) Mrs. Venables.
(c) Lord Peter.
(d) Bunter.
8. What are the emeralds wrapped in when they're discovered?
(a) An old newspaper.
(b) Brown paper.
(c) Cotton.
(d) Blue silk.
9. What do the Fenchurch St. Paul newspapers say about the discovery of the missing Wilbraham emeralds?
(a) That Scotland Yard has found them.
(b) Nothing, the story is kept out of the papers.
(c) That Mary Thoday is the thief.
(d) That Hilary Thorpe has inherited them.
10. What does Emily do to the object from which Lord Peter hopes to get fingerprints?
(a) She dusts it, obliterating any potential prints.
(b) She washes it, cleaning all the fingerprints off it.
(c) She gives it to a traveling salesman.
(d) She drops it and breaks it.
11. What does the proverb "Nine Tailors make a man" mean in Fenchurch St. Paul?
(a) That it takes nine tailors to make a suit of clothes.
(b) That Tailor Paul is rung nine times when a parishioner dies.
(c) That there are nine bells in the church.
(d) That the rector must change every nine years.
12. 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 knocking Deacon unconscious and driving him far away.
(c) By putting Deacon on a Dutch cargo boat.
(d) By bribing Deacon to leave.
13. What flies out of the hiding place in the roof along with the emeralds?
(a) A wasp.
(b) A bat.
(c) A robin.
(d) A hornet.
14. When the sluice gates break, who loses his life trying to save another man swept into the river?
(a) James Thoday.
(b) Hezekiah Lavender.
(c) Will Thoday.
(d) Potty Peake.
15. Who takes Reverend Venables' keys while Jeff Deacon is hidden in the bell chamber?
(a) Harry Gotobed.
(b) Emily.
(c) James Thoday.
(d) Will Thoday.
Short Answer Questions
1. For what does Will Thoday initially mistake Jeff Deacon upon discovering him in the church?
2. In France, why does Jeff Deacon pretend he's lost his ability to speak?
3. Where does Lord Peter decide that the missing emeralds must be hidden?
4. What does Lord Peter reveal as the cause of Jeff Deacon's death?
5. What is the first thing Reverend Venables does once Lord Peter tells him the sluice gates are collapsing?
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