"Object Lesson" Part one

Question 1

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Which Character is the detective?

Answer 1

Ellery Queen

Question 2

What is the crime in this story?

Answer 2

Theft

Question 3

What role does Miss.Carpenter play?

Answer 3

victim/ witness

Question 4

What piece of evidence do they have?

Answer 4

The envelope

Question 5

The moment he set foot in the room he knew he had walked in on a catastrophe.

Louise Carpenter stood tensely straight at her desk, her pretty face almost as white as the envelope she was clutching. And she was glaring at a mass of boy and girl faces so blankly, so furtively quiet that the silence sizzled.

—”Object Lesson,”
Ellery Queen

Which detail would most likely help you make a prediction about what is going on?

1. Ellery Queen’s entrance into the room
2. the blank faces of the students
3. the color of Miss Carpenter’s envelope
4. Miss Carpenter’s glare at the students

Answer 5

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Question 6

“Aaa, for all we know she took it herself.” And this was the third of the trio, the sharp-faced dark boy. If Ellery was right, he was the one who delivered part-time for O’Donnel’s Dry Cleaning on Columbus Avenue.

“And you are — ?”

“Howard Ruffo.”

—”Object Lesson,”
Ellery Queen

What prediction can you make about how Ellery will take Howard’s suggestion about his teacher?

1. He will agree with it and accuse the teacher.
2. He will laugh off Howard’s suggestion as ridiculous.
3. He will accuse Howard of stealing it himself.
4. He will continue to question Howard’s suggestion.

Answer 6

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Question 7

“You mean, Howard, you’re charging Miss Carpenter with having stolen the teachers’ money?” Ellery asked with a smile.

The boy’s dark glance wavered. “I mean maybe she took it like by mistake. Mislaid it or somepin’.”

“As a matter of fact,” came Louise’s quiet voice, “when I saw the money wasn’t in the envelope, my first thought was exactly that, Mr. Queen. So I searched myself thoroughly.”

—”Object Lesson,”
Ellery Queen

Which line in this passage helps you to check the prediction you just made?

1. “You mean, Howard, you’re charging Miss Carpenter with having stolen the teachers’ money?”
2. The boy’s dark glance wavered.
3. “I mean maybe she took it like by mistake.”
4. “So I searched myself thoroughly.”

Answer 7

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