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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. In Chapter 4, what does a servant find under the table where Peter and Harriet were dining?
(a) A letter from the Dean.
(b) Hate mail.
(c) A rose.
(d) Harriet's notebook.

2. When telling her about the New Library vandalism, what does Harriet smell in Miss Burrow the librarian's room?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Turpentine.
(c) Paint.
(d) Smoke.

3. Where does Harriet send Pomfret the morning after she meets him?
(a) To the police.
(b) To his dormitory.
(c) To the chemist's.
(d) To the Dean's office.

4. What does Harriet do for a living?
(a) Writes romance novels.
(b) Writes for a newspaper.
(c) Writes mysteries.
(d) Writes science textbooks.

5. At the end of Chapter 8, where does Harriet go for a soothing influence?
(a) Christ Church.
(b) Shrewsbury Chapel.
(c) Bath.
(d) London.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Harriet offer to help with proof sheets?

2. Which maid at Shrewsbury College is a widow with two children?

3. After being acquitted of murder, where had Harriet traveled?

4. Besides Jukes and his family, who is in the house when it is raided?

5. After the Gaudy Dinner, who invites Harriet for coffee?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Saint-George unable to keep his lunch appointment with Harriet?

2. Does Harriet learn anything about the poltergeist from the night when the fuses were removed?

3. Why is Sunday the best part of a Gaudy?

4. What happens to Jukes in Chapter 9?

5. What is significant about April 1st?

6. How do Harriet's classmates and former professors receive her?

7. In Chapter 2, what does Harriet talk about while having coffee with the Dean and her other classmates?

8. After the vandalism of the New Library, what do the Warden and Harriet decide about the investigation?

9. In Chapter 3, which two subjects had Harriet hoped not to think about at Oxford? Does she?

10. Harriet drives to Oxford to attend the opening of the new library and to investigate which incidents?

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