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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is stuck into the figure that Harriet finds hanging from the ceiling?
2. Which maid at Shrewsbury College is a widow with two children?
3. Whom does Harriet find climbing up a wall of the college in the middle of the night?
4. Harriet and the Dean discuss the absence of what in the malevolent notes?
5. Miss Pyke discovers that what is missing right before she has to lecture?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is Sunday the best part of a Gaudy?
2. How do Harriet's classmates and former professors receive her?
3. What happens while the lights are out at Shrewsbury in Chapter 9?
4. In Chapter 2, what does Harriet talk about while having coffee with the Dean and her other classmates?
5. Why does Harriet find it difficult to write to Peter after visiting Saint-George in the hospital?
6. Why does Harriet offer to help Miss Lydgate with her proofs?
7. What does Harriet choose to tell the faculty about the figure hanging in the chapel?
8. In the meeting that takes place during Chapter 5, why is it concluded that the culprit must be a resident at Oxford?
9. Why does the hanging figure incident clear Miss Cattermole's name?
10. Why does Miss Martin, Dean at Shrewsbury College, write a letter to Harriet in Chapter 4?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Both Pomfret and Peter propose to Harriet. Compare these two men in regard to the following areas: their personalities, their ages, their interactions with Harriet, and the success of their proposals.
Essay Topic 2
The issue of women's education versus domesticity occurs frequently in Gaudy Night. Even Harriet is at one time disposed to believe that the culprit is one of the female dons who has gone mad from learning and suppressed sexual desires. How is it ironic that Annie, a married uneducated women, is the mad culprit? Is Dorothy Sayers conveying a message through this? In your answer, consider the author's own life experience.
Essay Topic 3
The Senior Common Room is the setting for many significant meetings and conversations. Choose two of these occasions and explain their significance to the book.
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