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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 Charlie realize about Montgomery as he gets ready to leave for work?
(a) That Montgomery plans on staying with him.
(b) That Montgomery plans on leaving immediately.
(c) That Montgomery is in love with him.
(d) That Montgomery is going to go with him to work.

2. Why does the tour guide chastise Montgomery?
(a) He sees Montgomery trying to steal the painting.
(b) He thinks Montgomery is part of the tour group and has wandered off.
(c) Montgomery keeps interrupting the tour.
(d) Montgomery is rude to the guide.

3. What have the police done in their version of his confession?
(a) Make him look innocent.
(b) Make him look like a crazy person.
(c) Pick out all his faults.
(d) Make a murderer out of him.

4. Who is watching Montgomery as he forces his victim into the car?
(a) Mr. Behrens.
(b) The tour group.
(c) Anna Behrens.
(d) The maid.

5. What does Montgomery comment about when reading the confession?
(a) The spelling mistakes.
(b) The poor vocabulary.
(c) How short it is.
(d) The bad grammar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What other things does Montgomery think about the day of his capture?

2. What are Montgomery's feelings towards Max?

3. Where does Montgomery think he is when he wakes up in Charlie's house?

4. Montgomery has spent the night drinking and has to hail a taxi. How does Montgomery act as he waits for his taxi?

5. As Montgomery drives into the city with the wounded victim in the backseat, how do people react?

Short Essay Questions

1. Montgomery jokes around when he is arrested, but feels intimidated by being confined in possession of the police. What are Montgomery's values?

2. When Montgomery's mother's will is read, Montgomery is shocked to find out he is disinherited. At first he thinks it's because of the most recent fight they had but later finds out his mother disinherited him years prior. Why did his mother do this?

3. What do the mites Montgomery says are living on his skin symbolize?

4. What is the most important thing to Montgomery while he is in jail and why?

5. As the maid fights back at Montgomery after he shoves her in the car, he says he sees her as a "cornered heroine in a melodrama." Do you think this is an appropriate description of his victim?

6. It is no secret that Montgomery is angry at the world and feels he is owed something. How would killing this innocent person be revenge enough on the world for his alter ego Billy Bunter or Montgomery himself?

7. How is Montgomery foreshadowing his guilt by saying he had been "unknowingly leaving behind a trail of evidence rather than his troubles" as he leaves the village?

8. Charlie was a dear friend of Montgomery's parents and tells Montgomery of his mother when she was younger. Charlie says that many men adored Montgomery's mother and she was a loved by all except her husband. Why would Charlie tell Montgomery this?

9. Using your knowledge of Montgomery's history with women, why would he choose the "Portrait of the Woman with Gloves" rather than another?

10. What does Montgomery mean when he says that he can't say he didn't mean to kill her, only that he doesn't know precisely when he began to mean it?

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