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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 surprises Brenda Pridmore?
(a) That Dr. Kerrison is coming out of the lab when Brenda arrives.
(b) That Blakelock is not yet at the lab.
(c) That Mrs. Bidwell has not yet arrived at the lab.
(d) That the lights are on in the reception area when she arrives.

2. Whose son is Massingham?
(a) A charwoman.
(b) A peer of the realm.
(c) Dalgliesh's father's best friend.
(d) A notorious extortionist.

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 affability.
(b) How he wishes Dr. Lorrimer would resign.
(c) How much he admires Dr. Lorrimer's work.
(d) How he hates Dr. Lorrimer.

4. About what does Dalgliesh question the cleaning lady?
(a) How many people have keys to the cleaning locker.
(b) How Dr. Lorrimer's co-workers felt about him.
(c) Why she did not report the altercation between Dr. Lorrimer and a co-worker.
(d) Who owned the bloody hat in the trash.

5. What does Mrs. Bidwell tell Dalgliesh about the lab coat?
(a) That Dr. Lorrimer's lab coat was blue rather than white.
(b) That the lab coat that Dr. Lorrimer accidentally burns is missing.
(c) That the coat with Lorrimer's blood on it has disappeared.
(d) That Dr. Lorrimer never wore a lab coat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the significance of the mallet being in Dr. Lorrimer's lab?

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

3. About whom does Kerrison think on the drive to the murder site?

4. Where was Director Howarth the night before?

5. Who witnesses the exchange between Middlemass and Lorrimer?

(see the answer key)

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