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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: A Call to Murder, Chapter 6-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Howarth wish?
(a) That his daughter is safe in London.
(b) That he had not said he would be at the murder scene.
(c) That he had not given up his former job.
(d) That he and his wife had been able to leave that day on their vacation.

2. What does Nell have in her hand?
(a) Her teddy bear.
(b) Her father's coffee mug.
(c) A wax figure that represents Dr. Lorrimer.
(d) A cross.

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 much he admires Dr. Lorrimer's affability.
(d) How he hates Dr. Lorrimer.

4. In what does Dr. Lorrimer get Brenda interested?
(a) Finding minute particles of an alien substance.
(b) Reading DNA strands.
(c) In how to create stains.
(d) Biology and what can be learned under a microscope.

5. About what does Susan Bradley call Middlemass?
(a) To ask for her old job back.
(b) To intevene for Cliff.
(c) To offer her assistance with his backlog.
(d) To ask him to dinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nell do with the candle?

2. Who is Maxim Howarth?

3. How do Brenda's parents feel about her job?

4. About what does Stella say life isn't convenient?

5. Who is Dr. Kerrison?

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