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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dalgliesh figure about the window above the bathrooms?
(a) That the window is painted shut and inoperable.
(b) That no one could conceivably make it to the ground that way.
(c) That a slender person could conceivably make it to the ground that way.
(d) Dalgliesh does not notice the window.

2. What does Nell do with the candle?
(a) Burns her palm.
(b) Heats the wax doll and destroys it.
(c) Burns her teddy bear.
(d) Heats the coffee in the mug.

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

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

5. How do most of the staff seem to respond to Dr. Lorrimer's murder?
(a) They seem unaffected.
(b) They are horrified.
(c) They are quite distraught.
(d) They seem jubilant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the significance of the mallet being in Dr. Lorrimer's lab?

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

3. What does Howarth wish?

4. Who goes to tell Dr. Lorrimer's father about the doctor's death?

5. What is missing that belonged to Middlemass's deceased father?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Howarth talk to Dr. Lorrimer about and what is the outcome?

2. Who arrives at the lab before any one else and what surprises one of them?

3. What does Mrs. Bidwell show Dalgliesh?

4. How do Angela Foley and Stella Mawson come to be living together?

5. What upsets Director Howarth about Dr. Lorrimer?

6. Describe Stella Mawson.

7. About what does Adam Dalgliesh speak to his boss?

8. What does Brenda Pridmore talk about with her parents at breakfast and what is their reaction?

9. How does the interview between Dalgliesh and Easterbrook go and what does Dalgliesh learn?

10. How helpful is the interview with Cliff Bradley for Dalgliesh?

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