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1. Who is Montague (Monty) Egg a travelling representative for?
2. Where do Monty Egg's famous rhyming couplets come from?
3. In the story 'The Poisoned Dow '08', Monty realises the butler is the murderer when calls Monty "sir", instead of telling him to go to the back door as he did on his last visit. What word or words finish this couplet that Monty quotes? 'Whether you're wrong or whether you're right, it's always better to be ______'
4. From the story 'Sleuths on the Scent', what word or words begins this rhyming couplet? '_____ to learn means ready to earn'
5. In 'Murder in the Morning' Monty is warned by a fellow traveller that he'll be wasting his time. His reply?
6. What word is missing from this couplet, quoted in 'Death in the morning'? 'A ________ voice and ________ look put orders in the order book'.
7. What word is missing from the following couplet, from 'Death in the Morning', when Monty has revealed his brainwave about the garage clock? 'The ________ who will use his brains will spare himself a world of pains'
8. In the story 'One too Many' what, according to 'The Salesman's Handbook', 'may well give the buyer pause'?
9. In 'Murder at Pentecost', Monty learns something that (of course) makes him make up a rhyming couplet. Rather than inflict another one on you, I'll ask you what he learned.
10. For once, in 'Murder at Pentecost', neither 'The Salesman's Handbook' nor Monty are responsible for this couplet: "To call the university the 'varsity is out of date, if not precisely narsity". Who is?
11. What word is missing from this couplet, that Monty professes to admire very much, in 'Murder at Pentecost'? '__________ plays a major part in making up the salesman's art'
12. In 'Maher-Shalal-Hashbaz', what makes Monty recite this? 'It's hard to reassure, persuade or charm the customer who once has felt alarm'
13. What colour was Maher-shalal-hashbaz?
14. After discovering what John Doe had done with the animals, but with no proof of murder, does Monty decide to do something?
15. What is the first and last aphorism in 'The Salesman's Handbook', which can really apply to Monty's life?
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