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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 does Olivia learn that Chris did as a side project?

2. Why does Lynley's boss threaten to take him off the case?

3. What is the racist name the National Front group calls Lloyd George?

4. Where does Olivia say she was the night of Ken's death?

5. Why does Chris say he should find a job as a bread maker?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Olivia's relationship with Chris and Miriam's relationship with Kenneth mirror one another?

2. What runs through Lynley's mind as he tries to get to Jimmy?

3. How the author describe Hadiya's father?

4. What problems is Lynley having with his boss in Chapter 21?

5. What information does Mollinson give Lynley about the case in this section?

6. Why did Olivia decide to get back in contact with her mother?

7. How does Havers meet the young girl in chapter eleven?

8. How does Olivia imagine her reunion with her mother?

9. How did Olivia show her anger at Chris after the cat operation?

10. What new information does Lynley find out from Miriam in Chapter 18?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How has Jean and Kenneth's difficult marriage effect Jimmy? Why does their relationship make it easy to believe Jimmy's confession of murder?

Essay Topic 2

What was Jean's relationship with Kenneth? Why did Kenneth find it so difficult to leave her? How would their relationship developed if he had lived?

Essay Topic 3

Why is the Lynley and Helen subplot important to the story? How does the subplot effect Lynley's attitude towards the case? What does this subplot suggest about future books in the Lynley series?

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