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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose handwriting do the officials at Maidstone Gaol decide is on the French paper Hilary Thorpe finds in the church belfry?
(a) Mrs. Wilbraham's.
(b) Bunter's.
(c) Nobby Cranton's.
(d) Jeff Deacon's.

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

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

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

5. Who confesses to mutilating Jeff Deacon's body and burying it?
(a) Will Thoday.
(b) James Thoday.
(c) Mary Thoday.
(d) Nobby Cranton.

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

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

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

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

10. What is the legend of the Fenchurch St. Paul bells?
(a) That they draw the angels.
(b) That wicked people fear them and their tones.
(c) That they protect the church.
(d) That they can cure illness.

11. 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) Emily.
(d) Will Thoday.

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

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

14. 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.

15. Who is on the top of the bell-chamber ladder, able to witness James Thoday's removal of Deacon's body from the church?
(a) Potty Peake.
(b) Nobby Cranton.
(c) Bunter.
(d) Mrs. Gates.

Short Answer Questions

1. The ringers of which church bell tend to live to ripe old age?

2. Who asks Lord Peter to warn Fenchurch St. Paul that the sluice gates are giving way?

3. Which Fenchurch St. Paul farmer still cures his own bacon?

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

5. When Mrs. Wilbraham dies, what is clasped in her hand?

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