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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of accident is Royston in that forces him to borrow money from Harris to make it right?
(a) A bicycle accident.
(b) A plane crash.
(c) A car accident.
(d) A boating accident.

2. Who is Redfern?
(a) The nephew of Catherine Tarrant, a mentally disturbed teen.
(b) The ward of the murder victim.
(c) The nephew of the innkeeper, an injured former soldier.
(d) Rutledge's assistant.

3. Who is Lettice Wood's fiance?
(a) Hickam.
(b) Colonel Harris.
(c) Captain Mark Wilton.
(d) Mavers.

4. What does Lettice Wood's violent reaction to the question of whether or not Catherine Tarrant had shot the murder victim cause Rutledge to realize about her?
(a) She does not care who committed the murder.
(b) She knows who committed the murder.
(c) She is the one who committed the murder.
(d) She does not know who committed the murder.

5. Who finds the body of the murder victim?
(a) Royston.
(b) Lettice Wood.
(c) Mrs. Davenant.
(d) Wilton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Victoria Cross?

2. Why does Rutledge become angry in Chapter 7 while talking with Lettice Wood?

3. Who is in charge of the murder investigation, as Rutledge learns at the end of Chapter 1?

4. When does Catherine Tarrant claim a person never knows fear?

5. What emotion does Rutledge recognize brings on Hamish McLeod's voice quickly in his mind?

(see the answer key)

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