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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who buys Mary Thoday a parrot?
(a) James Thoday.
(b) Emily.
(c) Will Thoday.
(d) Nobby Cranton.

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

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

4. What name is on Jean Legros's identity discs when they're found?
(a) Arthur Cobbleigh.
(b) Stephen Driver.
(c) Nobby Cranton.
(d) Janis Lewis.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long do the villagers of Fenchurch St. Paul live in the church and Rectory before the waters recede?

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

3. Who is on the top of the bell-chamber ladder, able to witness James Thoday's removal of Deacon's body from the church?

4. What are the emeralds wrapped in when they're discovered?

5. Who kills Arthur Cobbleigh?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Bunter get upset with Emily over the beer bottle found in the vestry?

2. What aspect of the mystery of Jeff Deacon's death is Lord Peter still unable to solve one year after first becoming involved in the puzzle?

3. Who mutilates Deacon's body after his death and for what reason is the corpse mutilated?

4. How does Lord Peter find the stolen emeralds?

5. Why do Will and Mary Thoday have to remarry each other?

6. Why does Will Thoday take a large sum of money out of the bank and then redeposit it?

7. How does Lord Peter solve the mystery of Deacon's death and what does the cause of Deacon's death turn out to be?

8. How does Suzanne Legros react when she is sent a photograph of Arthur Cobbleigh?

9. What surprising news is revealed about Deacon's murder when James and Will Thoday are left alone in a room with a hidden microphone?

10. What makes Lord Peter and the police think that Arthur Cobbleigh and Jean Legros are the same man?

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