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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Three: An Experimetal Man, Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what does Dalgliesh question Dr. Kerrison concerning Nell?
(a) Why Nell hates Dr. Lorrimer.
(b) Where Nell was on the night of Dr. Lorrimer's murder.
(c) Why Nell does not speak.
(d) The run-in between Nell and Dr. Lorrimer.

2. What does the caller tell Mrs. Bidwell early in the morning?
(a) That her son was ill and she needs to go to London.
(b) Not to come in to work at the lab that morning.
(c) That the person who gives her a ride to work is unable to pick her up.
(d) That her husband is in the hospital.

3. Why does Director Howarth know Dr. Lorrimer looked at a book on Howarth's desk?
(a) He is not sure if Dr. Lorrimer looked at it.
(b) It was put back on the shelf.
(c) It was open to a different page than the one to which Howarth had it turned.
(d) The book was on the table when it had been on the desk.

4. What does Mercer do?
(a) Lies about his whereabouts the night before.
(b) Requests to stay on the case.
(c) Confirms arrangements for police guards and the packaging of evidence to go the Scotland Yard.
(d) Tells Dalgliesh his agency is out of order for coming in on the case.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose son is Massingham?

2. What about the concert facility does Dalgliesh question Middlemass?

3. What does Dalgliesh want to be recovered in the bathroom sink?

4. Who does Dalgliesh first interview in opening his investigation into the murder of Dr. Lorrimer?

5. What does Dr. Lorrimer inherit from his grandmother?

(see the answer key)

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