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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. What does Dalgliesh figure about the window above the bathrooms?
(a) That the window is painted shut and inoperable.
(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) Dalgliesh does not notice the window.

2. What happens two months prior to Dr. Lorrimer's death?
(a) His affair with Domenica ends.
(b) He ends an affair with Brenda Pridmore.
(c) He travels to Ireland with Domenica.
(d) It is when Domenica flirts with Dr. Lorrimer to unsuccessfully seduce him.

3. What protocol does Blakelock describe to Dalgliesh?
(a) The protocol of who is allowed to work after hours without Blakelock also being in attendance.
(b) The protocol of rank.
(c) The protocol of logging evidence.
(d) The protocol of signing out supplies.

4. To what does Domenica admit?
(a) Flirting with Dr. Lorrimer, but it never went further.
(b) Being at the bus stop the night of the murder.
(c) An affair with Dr. Lorrimer.
(d) Being in the lab the night of the murder.

5. 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) The book was on the table when it had been on the desk.
(c) It was open to a different page than the one to which Howarth had it turned.
(d) It was put back on the shelf.

Short Answer Questions

1. What surprises Brenda Pridmore?

2. About what is Massingham happy when they land?

3. What does Cliff Bradley assert over and over to Dalgliesh?

4. Who checks the keys in the safe with Angela on the morning of Dr. Lorrimer's death?

5. What encounter does Blakelock describe to Dalgliesh?

(see the answer key)

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