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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What important piece of information does Dalgliesh learn from his first interviewee?`
(a) That Dr. Lorrimer hated Domenica.
(b) That Dr. Lorrimer was planning to resign.
(c) That someone has torn a page out of Dr. Lorrimer's notebook.
(d) That Dr. Lorrimer had a date the night before.

2. Who requested that Angela check the keys in the safe?
(a) Blakelock.
(b) Dalgliesh.
(c) Easterbrook.
(d) Howarth.

3. Who is Inspector Blakelock?
(a) A detective from Scotland Yard.
(b) Brenda Pridmore's supervisor at Hoggatts Lab.
(c) The detective from the county seat.
(d) The local police investigator.

4. What surprises Brenda Pridmore?
(a) That the lights are on in the reception area when she arrives.
(b) That Mrs. Bidwell has not yet arrived at the lab.
(c) That Blakelock is not yet at the lab.
(d) That Dr. Kerrison is coming out of the lab when Brenda arrives.

5. In what does Dr. Lorrimer get Brenda interested?
(a) Reading DNA strands.
(b) Finding minute particles of an alien substance.
(c) In how to create stains.
(d) Biology and what can be learned under a microscope.

6. What does Brenda Pridmore start to do but then stops?
(a) Quit her job.
(b) Call Dr. Lorrimer's father.
(c) Tell Easterbrook that Dr. Lorrimer was secretly in love with her.
(d) Give an additional piece of information to Dalgliesh.

7. About what is Howarth relieved?
(a) That he made it through the autopsy without embarrassing himself.
(b) That his daughter is leaving to go back to boarding school.
(c) That his wife is returning the next day.
(d) That he has made a good start in his new job.

8. What prints are found on the mallet?
(a) Only those of the owner.
(b) Paul Middlemass.
(c) Brenda Pridmore and Dr. Kerrison.
(d) None.

9. What is lying open on the table?
(a) A tube of acid.
(b) Lorrimer's notebook.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A staining solution.

10. About what is Massingham happy when they land?
(a) Nothing in particular.
(b) The country air and taking on a murder investigation.
(c) To be working with the famed Adam Dalgliesh.
(d) To be off the helicopter.

11. Who stays with Mr. Lorrimer immediately after the news of his son's death is given him?
(a) Angela and Stella.
(b) His daughter.
(c) His neighbor.
(d) The priest.

12. What is the significance of the mallet being in Dr. Lorrimer's lab?
(a) It belongs in the autopsy room.
(b) It is evidence in another case.
(c) It has never been seen by anyone before.
(d) It belongs in the forensics lab.

13. What does Mrs. Bidwell tell Dalgliesh about the lab coat?
(a) That Dr. Lorrimer's lab coat was blue rather than white.
(b) That the coat with Lorrimer's blood on it has disappeared.
(c) That Dr. Lorrimer never wore a lab coat.
(d) That the lab coat that Dr. Lorrimer accidentally burns is missing.

14. What does Howarth wish?
(a) That he had not given up his former job.
(b) That he had not said he would be at the murder scene.
(c) That his daughter is safe in London.
(d) That he and his wife had been able to leave that day on their vacation.

15. Who is Dr. Kerrison?
(a) A neurologist.
(b) A forensic pathologist.
(c) A psychiatrist.
(d) A professor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Susan Bradley doing when she is introduced to the readers?

2. Who first arrives at the lab in Book 2, Chapter 1?

3. What does Dalgliesh want to be recovered in the bathroom sink?

4. What does Howarth think to himself about Lorrimer as they are wrapping up the crime scene?

5. Whose son is Massingham?

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