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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. Where does Peter sit while arguing with Sugg?
(a) On a tree stump.
(b) On a police car.
(c) On a stairwell.
(d) In Thipps' rocking chair.

2. What does Peter realize he has forgotten and must return home for in Chapter 1?
(a) His hat.
(b) His catalog.
(c) His pocket watch.
(d) His wallet.

3. What cripples Mr. Crimplesham?
(a) His leg.
(b) His arthritis.
(c) His neck.
(d) His back.

4. Where did Mr. Thipps go with a friend the night before the body appeared in his bathtub?
(a) An opera.
(b) A club.
(c) A birthday party.
(d) A race track.

5. What had happened to the dead man after he died?
(a) His teeth were cleaned.
(b) His arm was broken.
(c) He was shaved.
(d) His hair was trimmed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the only thing worn by the body the architect found?

2. With no one offering to help Mrs. Thipps, where does Peter take her?

3. What does Peter note about the architect when he meets him in Chapter 1?

4. What did Levy's maid say was strangely undisturbed in his room?

5. Why did Parker think the corpse in the architect's home might be Levy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What motive does Peter think Milligan could have for harming Levy?

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

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

4. What is characteristic of a set of fingerprints found in Levy's house in Chapter 5?

5. What clues lead Parker and Peter to believe that the dead man in the bathtub had recently lost his employment?

6. What happens when Peter voices a wish to be more involved with the investigation of the dead man in the bathtub?

7. In Chapter 3, what statement given by Thipps to the police was later contradicted by a servant?

8. What does Parker find written in Levy's diary in Chapter 5, and to whom do he and Peter assume Levy is referring?

9. Explain the disappearance case Parker is working on in Chapter 2, and some of the observations he has made.

10. Whom does Peter wish to avoid when he first goes to Thipps' apartment?

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