Q.1
Under pressure, Cathy repeats herself, saying "we did what you said" and "like you said". Which of her lines contradicts these statements?
  • "You told us to get DNA evidence. We got DNA evidence"
  • "We showed...initiative"
  • "There were quite a few"
  • "They wanted to interview me"
Q.2
Who shows the most awareness of the problem with having collected DNA from a person who matches the invented description?
  • Lou, Leah and Danny
  • Richard, Cathy and Brian
  • Cathy, Richard and Leah
  • Danny, Phil and Richard
Q.3
Why is it a problem that Cathy and the others collected DNA from a postman, rather than a random person?
  • It is not very plausible that a postman would be guilty of murder
  • The postman will distract from the real murderer
  • All of the postmen look similar, so the police will have a hard time deciding who the murderer is
  • They have falsely implicated an innocent person
Q.4
Which of the following lines expresses the impossibility of the situation the group has now found itself in?
  • "Lou, they are not going to send him to prison because he answers a description they need more than that, they need fibres, they need samples, they need evidence"
  • "They matched up the DNA evidence they found on the jumper to a police database and they came up with this man, this man who answers the description perfectly"
  • "Why don’t you tell them that? Why don’t you pop down the station and say 'excuse me, but that fat postman with the bad teeth doesn’t actually exist, so why don’t you let him go'?"
  • "Sarcasm, that’s the lowest"
Q.5
What is Cathy's main concern at the beginning of this passage?
  • She is worried that she has let down the rest of the group
  • She is boasting about how well she carried out the plan
  • She is hoping to be interviewed by a television news reporter
  • She is worried about an innocent man going to prison
Q.6
At the end of this extract, Leah finishes Cathy's sentence for her. What does the interrupted sentence suggest about Cathy?
  • She's a terrible person who has no care for other people
  • She knew exactly what would happen when she used her "initiative"
  • She hoped to spoil the group's plan
  • She misunderstood the purpose of the task she'd been given
Q.7
Whose silence during this scene is especially noticeable?
  • Mark's
  • John Tate's
  • Adam's
  • Phil's
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