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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. What is the name of Dr. Lorrimer's home?
(a) Pastime Cottage.
(b) Coldstone Cottage.
(c) Cod Cottage.
(d) Postmill Cottage.

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

3. What does Cliff Bradley ask Middlemass?
(a) If Middlemass would lie for Bradley.
(b) Nothing.
(c) If Middlemass talked with Susan Bradley the day before.
(d) If Middlemass thinks Bradley committed the murder.

4. What is in the lab that is likely the murder weapon?
(a) A noose lying on the counter.
(b) A bloody dissection knife.
(c) A bloody mallet.
(d) Nothing that Dalgliesh can see.

5. Who wants to see Dalgliesh after he is done at the Lorrimer house?
(a) Dr. Lorrimer's solicitor.
(b) Dr. Kerrison.
(c) Director Howarth.
(d) The cleaning lady at the lab.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the driver of the bus and conductor see?

2. What does Brenda do before she faints.

3. Where is Doyle parked the night of the murder of Lorrimer?

4. According to Mr. Lorrimer, for what does his son live?

5. Who rummaged through the upstairs of Mr. Lorrimer's house earlier in the day?

(see the answer key)

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