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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. Who do Qwilleran and Iris suspect killed C. C.?
(a) Another antique dealer.
(b) A woman he was having an affair with.
(c) The police.
(d) C. C.'s ex partner.

2. Who does Mary suspect was giving her crank calls?
(a) Iris.
(b) Andy.
(c) Cluthra.
(d) C. C. Cobbs.

3. What does Qwilleran learn about the Chandelier in Andy's shop?
(a) The Rikers were the couple who came to buy it.
(b) It had faulty wiring.
(c) It has been exchanged for another chandelier.
(d) It was a fake with glass instead of crystal.

4. What was Andy contemplating on selling, according to Mary Duckworth?
(a) The ladder he supposedly fell off of.
(b) His entire shop.
(c) The finial he fell on.
(d) The light fixture destroyed on the night of his death.

5. When Ben comes to Qwilleran's room for a visit, what does Qwilleran try to get him to admit?
(a) That he was at the Ellsworth House the night of the murder.
(b) That he knows who killed C. C. Cobb.
(c) That he entices Koko into his apartment.
(d) That he is the drug dealer Qwilleran is looking for.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the cats behave when Qwilleran and Mary almost kiss?

2. How does Qwilleran first try to discover who the drug dealer is?

3. While Prantz is searching for radios in C. C.'s apartment, whet does Qwilleran notice?

4. When Koko turns on the tape player again, what do Qwilleran and Ben hear?

5. What interrupts Qwilleran as he first sits down to read the manuscript?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Braun draw out the suspense with Qwilleran's reading of Andy's manuscript?

2. What is the significance of the surprise visitor to Iris's shop while Qwilleran is taking his turn managing it?

3. What information does Mrs. McGuffey give Qwilleran that might possibly prove to be a motive for Andy's murder?

4. What arrangement does Qwilleran make with Ben Nicolas?

5. What does Riker tell Qwilleran about his writing when Qwilleran drops in at the Fluxion office?

6. What other mystery does Koko uncover at the end of the novel?

7. what does Qwilleran eventually learn about how Russell Patch has the money to buy all his expensive equipment?

8. How does Qwilleran mistake the source of the things Koko brings to him?

9. What amusing information does Cluthra provide when Qwilleran goes to visit her?

10. Explain who Qwilleran suspects of having gone to the Ellsworth House.

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