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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 is Peter unable to find in Chapter 8?

2. What caused Freke to put glasses on the body in the bathtub?

3. Where does Peter NOT suggest the note be distributed?

4. What did Freke create to fool Levy in Chapter 13?

5. Why did Freke send home the man who normally handled bodies when the vagrant's body arrived?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Freke put glasses on the body?

2. What do Peter, Parker, the Dowager, and others do at the cemetery in Chapter 12?

3. What does Piggot recall about the dissection that he worked on the previous Tuesday?

4. What does Freke try to give Peter to help his condition in Chapter 11?

5. Why does Peter feel guilty about his role in the investigations in Chapter 7?

6. What does Parker tell Peter about Peruvian oil stock in Chapter 7?

7. Whom does Peter plan to invite to his dinner party at the end of the novel?

8. How do Peter and Parker extract some valuable information from Piggot?

9. What does the Dowager say when Parker arrives at Peter's house in Chapter 9?

10. What does Peter find that his mother has realized upon his arrival at the lunch in Chapter 7?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

Analyze and interpret the evidence surrounding the murdered victim in the bathtub and the disappearance of Levy. Describe the different crime scenes. What are the circumstances surrounding these examples? How do these situations propel the plot?

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