Whose Body?: A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 127 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Whose Body?: A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 127 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 does Julian Freke speculate could have inspired an attack on the man in the bathtub?

2. Why does Milligan agree to see Peter?

3. What cripples Mr. Crimplesham?

4. Who does Peter find had been a regular guest of Mr. Levy's?

5. Why was there an outcry when Levy's wife decided to marry him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Parker say in Chapter 5 when Peter compares the prints at Levy's house to the ones at Thipps' apartment?

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

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

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

5. How does Thipps explain the bruise on his face in Chapter 1?

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

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

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

9. At the inquest, what does the servant Gladys admit she did on the night before the body appeared in the Thipps' bathroom?

10. What do the Doctors Freke and Grimbold disagree about at the inquest in Chapter 6?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and interpret the antagonist of the novel, Dr. Julian Freke. What are his defining characteristics? Why is he the antagonist of the novel? As the reader, did you suspect Freke of being the murderer prior to the reveal? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Analyst Sayers' use of suspense in the novel. When does she create a suspenseful mood? Why does she do this? How does she do this?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the motif of disguise in the novel "Whose Body?" What are some examples of disguise in the novel? What are the reasons for these disguises? How do Peter and the other investigators discover the disguises?

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