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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 do Peter, Parker, and Bunter discover the murderer wore during the murder?
(a) Rubber gloves.
(b) A fur coat.
(c) Protective glasses.
(d) Tall rubber boots.

2. How does Bunter describe the woman who calls in Chapter 3?
(a) As quite loud.
(b) As quite deaf.
(c) As quite rude.
(d) As quite depressed.

3. What is the name of the police inspector?
(a) Plodd.
(b) Sugg.
(c) Dirk.
(d) Molt.

4. Who does Peter believe the police inspector suspects in the murder?
(a) Levy's wife.
(b) The architect's mother.
(c) The architect's serving girl.
(d) Levy's business partner.

5. Whom does Freke ask to speak to after the proceedings in Chapter 6?
(a) Mr. Thipps.
(b) Sugg.
(c) Parker.
(d) Peter.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the investigators know the dead man had lost his employment?

2. Why does Milligan agree to see Peter?

3. What does Crimplesham say to his junior partner after Peter leaves in Chapter 5?

4. What is the architect which the caller tells Peter about in Chapter 1 working on?

5. Who telephones Parker in Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the inquest, what does Thipps explain he did on the night before the body appeared in his bathroom?

2. Why did Parker take an interest when he heard a nude corpse has turned up in the Thipps' bathtub?

3. On what grounds does Peter decide Crimplesham cannot be the murderer of the man in the bathtub?

4. Why does Thomas Crimplesham write to Peter in Chapter 5? What was in the letter?

5. Where is Lord Peter Wimsey at the beginning of the novel, and why does he find he needs to return home?

6. What is noted to have happened to the dead man in the bathtub after his death?

7. What does Peter's mother tell him on the telephone in Chapter 1?

8. What does Peter tell Bunter before he leaves to investigate at Thipps' apartment?

9. How do Peter and Parker conclude that the body in the bathtub is not Reuben Levy?

10. Why does Peter suggest that the killer is smart and cool under pressure?

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