Professional Documents
Culture Documents
COLIN DEXTER
1. What kin of a person was Evans?
2. What precautions were taken for the smooth conduct of the examination?
3. Did the examination go as scheduled?
4. Did the governor and his staff heave of sigh of relief?
5. Was injured McLeery able to help the prison officer track Evans?
6. Did the clues left behind on the question paper put Evans back in prison?
7. Where did Evans go?
8. Where was McLeery?
9. Who was supposed to invigilate the exam? Why? What did he carry with him
in order to fulfill his duty to satisfaction?
10. What were Governor’s misgivings regarding the exam? How did he put his
fears to rest?
11. Why was Evans known as Evans the Break? Why had he been housed in the
jail at Oxford? How did the governor feel about this state of affairs?
12. The Governor received a call form the Examination Board soon after the exam
had begun. What was the ostensible purpose of the call? What was the real
purpose?
13. How did Evans and his friends ensure that the coast was clear for McLeery to
exist the prison without any trouble?
14. What was the purpose of the rubber ring tht McLeery had brought along with
him? What was the actual purpose that it was used for?
15. How did the numbers that were written by Evans on his answer sheet help the
Governor to locate the hotel in which he was hiding?
16. What was the purpose of the correction slip that the Examinations Board had
mentioned? What was the real purpose?
17. Do you think that Evans had left behind the examination paper on purpose?
Why or why not?
18. How did the Governor try to outwit Evans in the end? Did he succeed?
19. Why do you think that the Governor is referred to as just another good-for-a-
giggle gullible governor?
20. Who had helped Evans with his plan?
21. Who is Kleptomaniac? How is Evans associated with it?
22. Why was Evans called “Evans the Break”?
23. What plan did he make in this story for his escape?
24. Was Evans an intelligent man? Do you justify his way?
25. How did Evans prove the Governor was just another good-for-a-giggle?
26. With the clues left behind on the question paper, will Evans be back in the
prison?
27. What was the request to the Examination Department from the Oxford Prison
and why was it unusual?