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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Levy's wife's first name?

2. What is the name of Crimplesham's junior partner?

3. Where did the architect discover a body?

4. Where does Peter go to meet the Honorable Freddy Arbuthnot?

5. At what time did Thipps initially tell the police he came home?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is the body discovered to have been moved into the bathroom in Chapter 4?

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

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

6. In Chapter 4, based on the evidence found at Levy's home, what do Peter and Parker deduce happened the night before Levy's disappearance was discovered?

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

8. What does Peter's mother tell Peter about Reuben Levy's wife Christine?

9. What does Peter learn from his meeting with the Honorable Freddy Arbuthnot?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Sayers' use of humor in the novel. What kind of humor does she use? What does Sayers' poke fun at? What are some examples of Sayers' use of humor during darker moments? Why might Sayers have decided to use humor at this time?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and interpret the relationship between Peter and his mother. What are his mother's defining character traits? Do Peter and his mother get along? Does Peter's mother know about his sleuthing? If so, what does she think about it?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the genre of the novel "Whose Body?" This book is an example of what genre? What elements of this genre can be found in the novel? What are some other examples of famous works which belong to the same genre?

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