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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 Peter find at Levy's house in Chapter 5?

2. What does Peter say of the murderer in Chapter 2?

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

4. What does Peter note about Milligan's head?

5. Where did Mr. Thipps go with a friend the night before the body appeared in his bathtub?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Peter do to help Mrs. Thipps' situation in Chapter 3?

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

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

7. Upon arriving home in Chapter 2, what does Peter find Bunter has accomplished, and what does he offer Bunter?

8. 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?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the motif of suspicion in the novel "Whose Body?" Who is suspicious of whom and why? Of whom is Peter suspicious? Why does he feel this way? As the reader, who do you think behaves suspiciously in the novel? Why do they behave this way? How do the characters suspicions of others affect their behavior?

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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