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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 is Tom's middle name?
(a) Phelps
(b) Twain
(c) Davis
(d) Lawrence

2. What does Tom tell McCarron that Dickie could never have done?
(a) Killed himself
(b) Forged checks
(c) Married Marge
(d) Murdered someone

3. Who does Tom say he was with on the 2nd of February in Rome?
(a) Mrs. Greenleaf
(b) Freddie
(c) Marge
(d) Dickie

4. Who does Tom identify himself as at the police station?
(a) Himself
(b) Mr. Greenleaf
(c) Wallace
(d) Dickie

5. What does Tom splash on the front of Freddie's shirt?
(a) Beer and vodka
(b) Water and wine
(c) Pernod and gin
(d) Beer and wine

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Marge say she understands are a couple?

2. Who does Tom write a letter to in June?

3. What does Mr. Greenleaf think has happened to Dickie?

4. Who does one of the Franchetti brothers jokingly suggest Dickie's traded his passport with?

5. Who does Tom receive a letter from when he arrives in Athens?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tom say to Mr. Greeenleaf in his letter in June?

2. What do the newspapers say about Dickie?

3. How do the police think Freddie was murdered?

4. How does Tom fake Dickie's will?

5. What does Tom tell Mr. Greenleaf about Dickie's murder?

6. What did a man see outside of Dickie's apartment?

7. How does Mr. Greeleaf react when Marge tells him about Dickie's rings?

8. Why can Tom not tell Marge what he really thinks about the party?

9. What does one of the Franchetti brothers jokingly suggest about Dickie?

10. How does Tom exaggerate the Tom Ripley persona?

(see the answer keys)

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