(b) Faure's
(c)
(d) The complete overtures to Wagner's operas
With a swift flourish, Morse wrote down a letter.
Question Two
Which of these videos would you want to watch?
(a)
(b) England's World Cup victory (1966)
(c)
(d)
A second swift flourish from Morse.
Question Three
With which of the following women would you wish to spend some, if not all, of your surviving hours?
COLIN DEXTER
(a) Lady Thatcher
(b) Kim Basinger
(c) Mother Teresa
(d) Princess Diana
A third swift flourish.
Question Four
If you could gladden your final days with one of the following, which would it be?
(a) Two dozen bottles of vintage champagne
(b) Five hundred cigarettes
(c) A large bottle of tranquillizers
(d) A barrel of real ale
Flourish number four, and the candidate (confident of imminent success, it appeared) sat back in the black- leather armchair.
Question Five
Which of the following would you read during this period?
(a) Cervantes'
(b) Dante's
(c) A bound volume of
(d) Homer's
This time Morse hesitated some while before writing on the pad in front of him. 'You did the test yourself, you say?'
Lewis nodded. 'Victor Borge; the football; Princess
DEATH IS NOW MY NEIGHBOUR
Diana; the champagne; and
'There must be worse ways of spending your last week on earth,' admitted Morse.
'I didn't do so well, though - not on the marking. I'm not up diere among the cultured and the wise, I'm afraid.'
'Did you expect to be?'
'Wouldn't you?'
'Of course.'
'Let's hear what you picked, then.'
'My preferences, Lewis' (Morse articulated his words with precision) 'were as follows: (b); (c); (b); (c); none of them.'
Turning to the back page, Lewis reminded himself of the answers putanvely adjudged to be correct
'I don't believe it,' he whispered to himself. Then, to Morse: 'You scored the maximum!'
'Are you surprised?'
