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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4: Hanged by the Neck, Chapters 6-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose letters do the detectives find in a locked drawer in Dr. Lorrimer's room?
(a) Brenda Pridmore.
(b) Domenica.
(c) Dr. Kerrison.
(d) Dr. Lorrimer's mother.

2. What is the major line of questioning Dalgliesh takes with Middlemass?
(a) How Middlemass logs in documents he is assessing.
(b) About the fight between Dr. Lorrimer and Middlemass.
(c) What interaction there is between Dr. Lorrimer's staff and
(d) How Middlemass logs in people who come and go from his office.

3. Why does Angela Foley's grandmother not raise Angela?
(a) The grandmother was too poor.
(b) The grandmother was mentally incompetent.
(c) The grandmother despised Angela's mother.
(d) The grandmother dies just days after Angela's mother.

4. What is Dalgliesh trying to accurately understand?
(a) Why Brenda Pridmore is the one sent to find Dr. Lorrimer's body.
(b) The key and security situation at the lab.
(c) How someone else got into the lab through the restroom window.
(d) How Dr. Kerrison is able to pinpoint the time of death so accurately.

5. Who cleans up after the meeting with the senior scientists?
(a) Brenda Pridmore.
(b) Angela Foley.
(c) Director Howarth.
(d) Starr.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Of what does Mawson say Bradley probably reminds Dr. Lorrimer?

3. When do Dalgliesh and Massingham visit Dr. Kerrison?

4. About whom is Dalgliesh thinking as he is in his motel room?

5. With whom does Miss Williard ride to church?

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