Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for whole-text review, unit exam, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choice

1. Which character’s death does Edith most clearly foreshadow when she pulls the bindweed in the garden?

A) Her own

B) Janet’s

C) Aristides’s

D) Josephine’s

2. Which is the most accurate characterization of the Leonides family’s treatment of Brenda?

A) Disappointed and wounded

B) Welcoming and accepting

C) Judgmental and cold

D) Bemused and indulgent

3. Which is the most accurate description of Aristides Leonides?

A) Charming and light-hearted but also selfish

B) Charismatic and loving but also domineering

C) Impulsive and generous but also condescending

D) Thoughtful and attentive but also secretive

4. Which characters most clearly function as foils to one another?

A) Sophia and Josephine

B) Josephine and Eustace

C) Eustace and Laurence

D) Laurence and Sophia

5. Which events are foreshadowed by Josephine’s commentary about what happens to people who know too much in detective stories?

A) Edith’s false confession and her death

B) The arrests of Brenda and Laurence

C) The staged attack on Josephine and the murder of Janet

D) The deaths of Janet and Edith

6. For most of the novel, who is Charles’s primary suspect in Aristides’s murder?

A) Brenda

B) Josephine

C) Roger

D) Philip

7. What makes Josephine’s morality different from that of the other Leonides family members?

A) Josephine is selfish and egotistical, making it harder for her to consider that she might not always be right.