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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 makes the police and Lord Peter certain that Will Thoday could not have buried Jeff Deacon in Lady Thorpe's grave?
(a) The evidence does not implicate Will as the killer.
(b) Will is not a violent man.
(c) Will has an airtight alibi for the night of the murder.
(d) Will is ill and weak from influenza at the time of the murder.

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

3. 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 drops it and breaks it.
(c) She washes it, cleaning all the fingerprints off it.
(d) She gives it to a traveling salesman.

4. The ringers of which church bell tend to live to ripe old age?
(a) Dimity.
(b) Gaude.
(c) Batty Thomas.
(d) Tailor Paul.

5. Where does Lord Peter decide that the missing emeralds must be hidden?
(a) In the church in Reverend Venables' office.
(b) In the church venting system.
(c) In a church bathroom.
(d) Between the cherubims in the church roof.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of car does Lord Peter drive?

2. Who provides Jeff Deacon with food while he's imprisoned in the church bellchamber?

3. What does Mrs. Wilbraham bequeath to Lord Peter?

4. Who kills Arthur Cobbleigh?

5. In France, why does Jeff Deacon pretend he's lost his ability to speak?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Will Thoday initially believe Deacon has returned to Fenchurch St. Paul and what is the actual reason Deacon has returned?

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

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

5. How does Lady Wilbraham respond when her stolen emeralds are found?

6. How does Lord Peter find the stolen emeralds?

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

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

9. 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?

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

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