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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. How does Gillian send messages to Roberta?
(a) She leaves notes in a hollow tree.
(b) Through Stepha Odell.
(c) She calls Roberta on a cell phone.
(d) Through personal ads in the newspaper.

2. How does Paul Odell die?
(a) He drowns in a boating accident.
(b) He is killed in an airplane crash.
(c) He commits suicide after developing Huntington's disease.
(d) He is murdered by Olivia Odell.

3. What is Jonah Clarence's relationship with Gillian?
(a) He's Gillian's psychiatrist.
(b) He's Gillian's neighbor and friend.
(c) He's Gillian's boss.
(d) He's Gillian's husband.

4. In Chapter 9, where does Stepha Odell book Inspector Lynley and Sergeant Barbara Havers for dinner?
(a) Lowgate Manor.
(b) The Dove and Whistle pub.
(c) St. Catherine's tea shop.
(d) Keldale Hall.

5. With whom does Richard Gibson say he was having a romantic relationship when he left Keldale at age nineteen?
(a) Gillian.
(b) Stepha Odell.
(c) Olivia Odell.
(d) Roberta.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Father Hart describe Gillian?

2. Who does Inspector Lynley initially send to London to find Gillian?

3. What does Hank Watson do for a living?

4. What is the relationship between Stepha Odell and Paul Odell?

5. What does Lady Helen Clyde note about Inspector Lynley's appearance at the beginning of Chapter 15?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mrs. Burton-Thomas dress for dinner in Chapter 9?

2. What does Deborah Allancourt-St. James' father do for a living and how does his profession match the image Sergeant Barbara Havers has of Inspector Lynley?

3. What happens when Deborah Allancourt-St. James and Inspector Lynley meet in the graveyard in Chapter 10?

4. Whose child does the baby that died at Keldale Abbey three years earlier turn out to be?

5. Who is Jonah Clarence and what is ironic about his profession?

6. What objections does Sergeant Barbara Havers have in Chapter 9 to dining at Keldale Hall?

7. Of what trauma in Sergeant Barbara Havers' own family life do the revelations about Gillian and Roberta's suffering at the hands of their father arouse memories?

8. Why does Jonah Clarence lie to Sergeant Havers about being with Nell at the time of William Teys' murder?

9. Where does Gillian get her alias Nell Graham and what relevance does the fictional Helen Graham have to Gillian?

10. What does the story Bridie Odell tells Inspector Lynley in Chapter 10 about William Teys spending so much time with her indicate?

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