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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Death in a White Coat, Chapters 6-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Susan Bradley doing when she is introduced to the readers?
(a) She is cooking breakfast.
(b) She is waking up to breast-feed her new baby.
(c) She is asleep.
(d) She is in the shower.

2. Who does Dalgliesh first interview in opening his investigation into the murder of Dr. Lorrimer?
(a) Brenda Pridmore.
(b) Director Howarth.
(c) Claire Easterbrook.
(d) Dr. Kerrison.

3. What does Howarth think to himself about Lorrimer as they are wrapping up the crime scene?
(a) How much he admires Dr. Lorrimer's work.
(b) How he wishes Dr. Lorrimer would resign.
(c) How he hates Dr. Lorrimer.
(d) How much he admires Dr. Lorrimer's affability.

4. What is all the staff required to do in the library?
(a) Talk to Howarth who dismisses them one by one.
(b) Stay there until that evening.
(c) Read up on investigative law for their particular situation.
(d) Write down all their activities for the past 24 hours.

5. What does Dalgliesh think about on the helicopter flight to Chevisham?
(a) His partner's background.
(b) If Dr. Lorrimer has a wife or children.
(c) Whether he'd be back by the end of the week.
(d) If Massingham is competent since he's never worked with Massinham.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Susan Bradley call Middlemass?

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

3. Who from Scotland Yard is assigned to come to Chevisham to investigate a murder?

4. Who seems emotionally immune to the process of an autopsy?

5. Who is teaching Brenda?

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