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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who provides Jeff Deacon with food while he's imprisoned in the church bellchamber?
(a) Mrs. Wilbraham.
(b) Potty Peake.
(c) Mrs. Venables.
(d) Will Thoday.

2. What does Lord Peter organize while waiting out the flood in the church?
(a) Washing and drying of dishes.
(b) Making tea.
(c) Baking bread.
(d) Games and drills for the children.

3. What family owns the Red House?
(a) The Thorpe family.
(b) The Wilbraham family.
(c) The Lavender family.
(d) Lord Peter Wimsey's family.

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

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

6. Who is Samuel Snell?
(a) A Tailor Paul ringer who lives to be seventy-six.
(b) The real emerald thief.
(c) The real husband of Mary Thoday.
(d) The killer of Jean Legros.

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

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

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

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

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

12. From where does Potty Peake observe Will Thoday's interactions with Jeff Deacon in the church belfry?
(a) From the ladder leading up to the belfry.
(b) From the church rooftop.
(c) From the church choir loft.
(d) From behind Abbot Thomas' tomb.

13. In what name does Nobby Cranton have fake travel papers issued for Jeff Deacon for Deacon's journey to England?
(a) Joseph Lemuel.
(b) Stephen Driver.
(c) Matthew Cornwall.
(d) Paul Taylor.

14. Who does Mrs. Wilbraham designate as Hilary Thorpe's trustee in handling the affairs of her estate?
(a) Mrs. Venables.
(b) Lord Peter.
(c) Bunter.
(d) Mrs. Gates.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children do Will and Mary Thoday have?

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

3. What makes the police and Lord Peter certain that Will Thoday could not have buried Jeff Deacon in Lady Thorpe's grave?

4. What is the only area of Fenchurch St. Paul not covered in water?

5. For what does Will Thoday initially mistake Jeff Deacon upon discovering him in the church?

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