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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 are the emeralds wrapped in when they're discovered?

2. How many children do Will and Mary Thoday have?

3. Who confesses to mutilating Jeff Deacon's body and burying it?

4. What flies out of the hiding place in the roof along with the emeralds?

5. When Jeff Deacon tells Will Thoday he's come back to Fenchurch for money, what does Will think Deacon means?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mary Thoday react when Lord Peter shows her the cipher, and what does her reaction indicate?

2. What brings Lord Peter back to Fenchurch St. Paul one year after he abandons the mystery of Jeff Deacon's murder?

3. What is Jeff Deacon's tie to Arthur Cobbleigh?

4. Why does Will Thoday take a large sum of money out of the bank and then redeposit it?

5. What does the behavior of the villagers during the flood indicate about the closeness of the people and the church's role in their lives?

6. How does Lady Wilbraham respond when her stolen emeralds are found?

7. Why does Bunter get upset with Emily over the beer bottle found in the vestry?

8. Who mutilates Deacon's body after his death and for what reason is the corpse mutilated?

9. How does Lord Peter find the stolen emeralds?

10. Why do Will and Mary Thoday have to remarry each other?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the depiction of women in the novel. Are women in positions of leadership in the book? What characteristics are ascribed to women in the novel? Do the men in the novel treat the women as equals or do they try to dominate them? How does the treatment of women in the 1920's world of the novel change any from what it is in the present day? Cite at least three examples from the text to support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the servant characters in the novel: Bunter, Jeff Deacon and Emily. Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.

Essay Topic 3

Each chapter in The Nine Tailors begins with an epigraph. Discuss the author's technique of using epigraphs to introduce her chapters. How do the epigraphs relate to the chapters they introduce? What do you think Dorothy L. Sayers intends to convey or accomplish through this technique? Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.

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