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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. Why does Sergeant Barbara Havers think she has been chosen to work with Lynley on the investigation of the murder of William Teys?
(a) She's being given a promotion.
(b) She's too unattractive to tempt him.
(c) She has experience as a forensics investigator.
(d) She's from the village where the murder occurred.

2. What is Father Hart's religion?
(a) Episcopalian.
(b) Methodist.
(c) Baptist.
(d) Catholic.

3. Why is evidence of Gillian's existence destroyed by her father?
(a) Gillian was wild and has run away, infuriating her father.
(b) Gillian is not William Teys' child.
(c) Gillian is illegitimate.
(d) Gillian is in hiding from the police.

4. As the book opens, how many murders have occurred around London train stations in the last five weeks?
(a) Thirteen.
(b) Eighty.
(c) Ten.
(d) Five.

5. Why are Inspector Lynley and Sergeant Barbara Havers surprised to find a well-stocked library at the Teys farm?
(a) Stepha Odell says Roberta had no books to read at home.
(b) Father Hart and William Teys burn non-bibical books.
(c) William Teys allows no books but the Bible for his family.
(d) The Teys family is illiterate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What about the treatment of Roberta Teys upsets Inspector Lynley in Chapter 6?

2. In Chapter 8, how long has Russell Mowrey been missing?

3. What relative of Sergeant Barbara Havers has died of leukemia?

4. What aristocratic title does Inspector Lynley hold?

5. To what organization is Father Hart traveling?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are Olivia and Bridie Odell and what is their relationship to William Teys?

2. What facts does Father Hart reveal in Chapter 3 about William Teys' murder?

3. What happens when Inspector Lynley and Sergeant Havers' visit with Roberta Teys in Chapter 8, and how do these events alter Havers' opinion of Lynley?

4. Who is Lady Helen Clyde?

5. What experience has Danny, the maid at Keldale Hall, had with a crying baby at Keldate Abbey?

6. Who is in the mysterious photograph that Inspector Lynley and Sergeant Barbara Havers find at Gembler Farm and why was this person cut out of the other Teys family photographs?

7. Why is Sergeant Barbara Havers put "back in uniform" eight month before the Teys murder?

8. What is Richard Gibson's relationship to Roberta and what implicates him as a suspect in the murder of William Teys?

9. Why does Sergeant Havers think Superintendent Webberly assigns her to work with Inspector Lynley on the investigation of William Teys' murder?

10. How does Chief Superintendent Nies feel about Inspector Lynley, and what reason does Lynley give Sergeant Havers for Nies' dislike of him?

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