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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Death in a White Coat, Chapters 6-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Detective-Inspector Doyle believe is a good investment?
(a) His house.
(b) Some stocks he recently purchases.
(c) His wife.
(d) His car.

2. Why does Director Howarth know Dr. Lorrimer looked at a book on Howarth's desk?
(a) The book was on the table when it had been on the desk.
(b) He is not sure if Dr. Lorrimer looked at it.
(c) It was put back on the shelf.
(d) It was open to a different page than the one to which Howarth had it turned.

3. What does Blakelock tell Howarth when he comes back downstairs?
(a) That the cleaning woman is upstairs in a dead faint.
(b) That no one is in the lab but it is unsecured.
(c) That Dr. Kerrison is unconscious upstairs and Lorrimer is dead.
(d) That Dr. Lorrimer is upstairs murdered.

4. Why does Mrs. Bidwell not have to do much in Director Howarth's office?
(a) He is meticulous.
(b) Mrs. Bidwell and Director Howarth do not get along very well.
(c) He is rarely there.
(d) He likes to do most of the cleaning up himself.

5. What does Brenda need to learn according to her supervisor?
(a) To be more detached.
(b) To greet visitors with confidence.
(c) To log in evidence correctly.
(d) To coordinate lab activities.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose son is Massingham?

2. How do most of the staff seem to respond to Dr. Lorrimer's murder?

3. Who does Dalgliesh first interview in opening his investigation into the murder of Dr. Lorrimer?

4. What important piece of information does Dalgliesh learn from his first interviewee?`

5. What does Cliff Bradley ask Middlemass?

(see the answer key)

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