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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What church service do Will and Mary Thoday miss?

2. Which Fenchurch St. Paul parishioner has purchased several items identical to the one on which Lord Peter hoped to find fingerprints?

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

4. To what other Fenchurch St. Paul parishioner is Emily related?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the behavior of the villagers during the flood indicate about the closeness of the people and the church's role in their lives?

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

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

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

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

6. How does Will Thoday die, and how does his death redeem his character?

7. How does Lord Peter find the stolen emeralds?

8. What brings Lord Peter back to Fenchurch St. Paul one year after he abandons the mystery of Jeff Deacon's murder?

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

10. How does Mary Thoday react when Lord Peter shows her the cipher, and what does her reaction indicate?

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