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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. What does Leonard call his house?
(a) Bedside Manor.
(b) Abbey Grange.
(c) Heath House.
(d) Three Chimneys.

2. What does Melissa tell Algernon that throws him into a panic?
(a) She wants to sell her investment shares.
(b) She is divorcing Francis.
(c) She is expecting a baby.
(d) She suspects the Gardners of theft.

3. By the end of the novel, why does Pünd feel responsible for Francis's death?
(a) He was not fast enough to identify Melissa's real killer.
(b) He should have investigated Miss Cain's background before hiring her.
(c) He should not have allowed Francis to be alone with Miss Cain.
(d) He was distracted during the investigation by thinking about the book he is writing.

4. What change to the opening of Atticus Pünd Takes the Case did Susan argue for when she was editing the book?
(a) She wanted the book to begin with Madeline Cain learning about James's death.
(b) She wanted the murder to have already happened before the narrative starts.
(c) She wanted the Ludendorff Diamond case moved to the book's beginning.
(d) She wanted Conway to start the book with Pünd, not the action in Tawleigh.

5. When the house is being searched after Francis's death, what important piece of evidence does an officer find hidden among some papers?
(a) Melissa's contract with Cox.
(b) Melissa's fan mail.
(c) Melissa's letter to her lover.
(d) Melissa's missing lingerie.

Short Answer Questions

1. During his conversation with Nancy, what does Pünd reveal that he knows about her?

2. What is the name of Atticus Pünd's secretary?

3. When Pünd interviews Leonard Collins, what question does Leonard find "very strange" (124)?

4. What item does Pünd notice in the hallway at Clarence Keep that will later be used to kill Francis?

5. When Susan returns to Branlow Hall in "The Owl," why is Melissa Conway there?

Short Essay Questions

1. What terrible accident happens on Algernon's way home in "Algernon Marsh," and what does he do about it?

2. In "Clarence Keep," how does Melissa behave as she leaves her house, and why?

3. What does Francis find missing in his wife's bedroom, and what happens as a result?

4. In "Seventeen: At the Moonflower Hotel," what solution does Pünd offer to the mystery of why the phone cord was wiped clean of fingerprints?

5. Where does Francis Pendleton claim he was on the evening that Melissa was killed, and how does Hare find out that he is lying?

6. In "The Owl," what serious accident almost befalls Susan, and who saves her?

7. When Pünd meets Lance Gardner in "Seven: A Question of Time," what theory does Gardner offer about the murder?

8. How have the Gardners been embezzling from the Moonflower, and who discovers proof of their crime?

9. In "Seven: A Question of Time," what attitude does DCI Hare have toward Pünd's arrival, and why?

10. In "Eight: Taken by the Tide," what causes Cox to finally tell the truth about his whereabouts on the night of the murder?

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