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Answer: He knew too much about Henry's accidental murder of a farmer and they were worried he'd give them away.

Henry, Francis and the Macaulay twins have a bacchanal in the woods and Henry accidentally kills a farmer. The group claim they ran over a deer when Bunny sees them in their bloodstained clothes, but Bunny is suspicious and keeps making remarks about 'deerslayers'.

He becomes even more suspicious when he sees a newspaper article about the murder and realises it occurred on the night when the rest of the group were in the woods. While he and Henry are on holiday in Italy, he reads Henry's diary - which Henry has written in Latin - and realises that Henry was responsible for the farmer's death. Bunny torments the rest of the group by singing 'the farmer's in the dell', although at the time, Richard does not understand why they react so badly to it.

The group have also been spending copious amounts of money on Bunny in an attempt to pacify him. One night in April, Bunny gets drunk and tells Richard what happened, and Richard tells Charles and Henry in turn, which makes Henry conclude that Bunny needs to be dealt with before he can give them away to the police.

Answer: Uruguay

Richard remembers he left a textbook at Henry's apartment and when he lets himself in, he finds the apartment in a mess, which puzzles him as Henry is normally very tidy. He then finds a note with 'TWA' in Henry's handwriting and a phone number in Francis' handwriting.

He calls the number, pretending to be Henry, and discovers that Henry has booked four one-way tickets to Argentina. He also finds two packed suitcases. When Richard later asks him about it, Henry explains that Argentina was actually a stopover point and that they were planning to go to Uruguay from there, as his father has property in Uruguay.

He had left the key for Richard to find in case Richard ever needed to use it, and was planning to contact Richard with further instructions. Ultimately, the group realise they won't have enough money to last them and decide to return to Hampden, and it is at this point that Richard realises they must have killed someone, and Henry confirms it.

Answer: Poison

Henry initially considers poisoning Bunny and, as Richard studied medicine, asks him to calculate the lethal human dose for a poisonous mushroom, which he tests on a neighbour's dog. He plans to make a dish with both the poisonous mushroom and a similar-looking harmless one and offer it to Bunny, keeping an antidote for himself on hand. Richard tells him it wouldn't work and that it is too difficult and impractical to calculate.

The poison also takes too long to come into effect and Henry worries that Bunny might tell someone before he dies.

They later discuss using sleeping pills, as drugs are easy to come by in Hampden, but dismiss the idea as too risky as Bunny will notice crushed pills in his drink.

Answer: Sunday

While Bunny is at a party on a Saturday night, with Camilla keeping an eye on him, Henry decides that Bunny has to be killed the following day, in a 'hiking accident', as the next opportunity to kill him will be in at least a week, if not longer. The rationale for this is that Bunny likes to go for walks on Sundays and one of his favourite routes includes a ravine.

Henry is familiar with the route and times how long it takes to walk both ways. His plan is that the group drives to the woods and meets Bunny at the ravine, and he calculates the best height to push Bunny from. If Bunny does not die from the fall, Henry plans to drown him in the stream in the ravine.

Answer: "Why, looking for new ferns."

On the day of the murder, Richard wakes up late and Judy Poovey, one of his friends outside the group, reminds him that the Swing into Spring party is happening that day. She mentions that Bunny is in the library but when Richard goes there, he finds a note from Bunny to his girlfriend Marion, saying he has gone to the party to get a drink, and worries that Bunny won't come to the ravine. Richard calls Henry and the twins, but nobody answers and he heads to the ravine, where he finds Henry, Francis and the twins hiding. Bunny arrives and asks the group what they're doing in the woods.

The second time he asks, Henry says, "Why, looking for new ferns," and pushes him into the ravine to his death. Henry goes down into the ravine to check that Bunny is dead, and the group drive off.

Answer: Heavy snow

On the way back from the ravine, Charles notes that it is beginning to snow, and Francis says that it's unusual for it to snow in April. The snowfall is heavy and lasts for several days, and nobody has found Bunny; Julian, the group's tutor, assumes he must be skipping class.

Henry considers phoning the police, as the longer Bunny is missing, the worse it will look. The chair of Bunny's hall of residence calls the police and things begin to escalate, as Bunny's family offer a reward for finding him and the police begin to search the area - the group join in, so as not to attract suspicion - and question students and staff.

The FBI get involved and there is also an investigation of whether Bunny may have been involved with drugs, which leads to a major drug bust. On a Tuesday afternoon, over a week later, a first-year student finds Bunny's body while out walking her dog, and the dog starts digging him up.

Henry, Camilla and Richard are having lunch in the dining room when they see an ambulance and Bunny's body being carried on a stretcher (they recognise him by his rain slicker).

When they come out, Henry is immediately bombarded by the press.

Answer: He rubs soil on himself.

The Corcorans invite Henry, Richard, Charles and the twins, along with several other students, to Bunny's funeral. It is an all-round awkward affair; the group are overwhelmed by Bunny's obnoxious family, Camilla is forced to room with Marion, Charles gets drunk and steals Francis' car keys, and Richard and Cloke Rayburn steals pills from Mrs Corcoran (as Bunny's best friend, Cloke knows the house very well) for Henry. Cloke also mentions that he's heard Camilla talking to someone on the phone in the early hours of the morning.

At the funeral, Henry recites an AE Housman poem called 'With Rue My Heart is Laden'. Richard is struck by the horrible realisation that not only is Bunny dead, but he is stuck with the other four for good. As Bunny's coffin is lowered into the grave and the mourners throw earth on it, Henry picks up a handful of soil and rubs it across his chest. Julian and the rest of the group are horrified but Henry barely reacts, a sign of his decaying sanity.

Answer: He gives him a bottle of Nembutal tablets.

The FBI question both Cloke and members of the group; Cloke suspects that Henry may have given Richard's name to the FBI as a way of deflecting attention from himself. Charles is arrested for drunk driving and Richard comes to court to collect him. On the way home, Charles reveals that the FBI came close to finding out about the group's involvement in Bunny's death; they were suspicious about Henry's behaviour and Charles manages to talk his way out of it.

At the twins' home, Richard sees Charles kiss Camilla in a surprisingly erotic manner, and Charles and Camilla are later revealed to be in an abusive incestuous relationship.

She moves into the expensive Albermarle Hotel, financed by Henry. Francis and Richard decide to take Charles to Francis' aunt's house in the country and Charles worries that Henry is trying to kill him by giving him the Nembutal tablets Richard stole from Bunny's mother.

Henry had claimed that they would help Charles sleep, but they are not to be taken with alcohol; Charles thinks Henry might have spiked them, but Richard knows Henry wouldn't have needed to as Richard had told him that Nembutal is dangerous when mixed with alcohol.

Answer: He leaves the country.

When Richard and Francis go to see Julian, he tells them he has received a strange typed letter purporting to be from Bunny, which he assumes is a sick joke; however, Richard knows that the letter is real as the style matches Bunny's. In the letter, Bunny calls Henry a 'fucking monster' and mentions the death of the farmer and the twins' incestuous relationship.

While Francis is looking through the letter, he sees further proof that the letter is genuine: one of the pages has the address and letterhead of the Excelsior, the hotel where Bunny and Henry were staying in Rome. Francis panics and the two men rush to the Albermarle to warn Henry, only for Camilla to tell them that he has gone to see Julian. Richard tries to get Henry out of the meeting to warn him, but it's too late: Julian sees the letterhead and puts two and two together, and Henry is forced to tell him the truth. On Monday, the Dean of Studies tells the class that Julian has taken an indefinite leave of absence and left the country, and a new teacher will be taking them for the rest of the term.

Henry goes to Julian's house and finds it locked, and feels betrayed, not least because Julian left because he wanted his name to be kept out of the case. He says that he loved Julian more than his own father.

Answer: Henry

Henry's kill count is three: the farmer, Bunny, and himself. He phones Francis at his aunt's house and hears Charles eavesdropping on the line. Charles steals a truck and Francis and Richard head to the Albemarle to warn Camilla and Henry, but Charles turns up drunk, pulls a gun on Henry and threatens to shoot him.

He accidentally shoots Richard while Henry wrestles the gun from him. As the innkeeper comes upstairs to see what the noise is about, Henry kisses Camilla and shoots himself in the head, though he does not die immediately. Richard reveals in the epilogue that he is the only one of the group to graduate; Francis and the twins have dropped out and returned to their families. Francis later attempts suicide by slitting his wrists, but survives and is forced to marry a woman, on pain of being cut off from his inheritance by his homophobic grandparents. Camilla becomes a recluse, taking care of her grandmother, and is estranged from Charles after he ran away with a woman he met in rehab.

At the end of the book, Henry appears in Richard's dream.