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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. Why does Angela Foley's grandmother not raise Angela?
(a) The grandmother was too poor.
(b) The grandmother dies just days after Angela's mother.
(c) The grandmother was mentally incompetent.
(d) The grandmother despised Angela's mother.

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

3. What do the driver of the bus and conductor see?
(a) A young man standing inside the bus stop shelter.
(b) A woman standing inside the bus stop shelter.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A woman with two young children standing inside the bus stop shelter.

4. What does Blakelock tell Howarth when he comes back downstairs?
(a) That no one is in the lab but it is unsecured.
(b) That the cleaning woman is upstairs in a dead faint.
(c) That Dr. Kerrison is unconscious upstairs and Lorrimer is dead.
(d) That Dr. Lorrimer is upstairs murdered.

5. About what does Dalgliesh question Dr. Kerrison?
(a) Whether Nell Kerrison could have done this.
(b) Why Dr. Kerrison seems interested in seeing Dr. Lorrimer.
(c) The cause and time of death.
(d) Where Dr. Kerrison was the night before.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the most striking thing about Dr. Lorrimer's room?

3. About what does the rector's wife talk non-stop?

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

5. What does Mr. Lorrimer remember about a conversation with a woman who calls earlier in the week?

(see the answer key)

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