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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 is Howarth relieved?
(a) That his daughter is leaving to go back to boarding school.
(b) That he made it through the autopsy without embarrassing himself.
(c) That he has made a good start in his new job.
(d) That his wife is returning the next day.

2. Who cleans up after the meeting with the senior scientists?
(a) Director Howarth.
(b) Angela Foley.
(c) Starr.
(d) Brenda Pridmore.

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

4. Who seems emotionally immune to the process of an autopsy?
(a) Inspector Blakelock.
(b) Dr. Lorrimer.
(c) Dr. Kerrison.
(d) Brenda Pridmore.

5. Who stays with Mr. Lorrimer immediately after the news of his son's death is given him?
(a) Angela and Stella.
(b) The priest.
(c) His neighbor.
(d) His daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What prints are found on the mallet?

2. About what is Massingham happy when they land?

3. What does Mercer do?

4. What does Middlemass fail to tell Dalgliesh?

5. When do Dalgliesh and Massingham visit Dr. Kerrison?

(see the answer key)

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