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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 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.

2. What does the caller tell Mrs. Bidwell early in the morning?
(a) That her son was ill and she needs to go to London.
(b) Not to come in to work at the lab that morning.
(c) That her husband is in the hospital.
(d) That the person who gives her a ride to work is unable to pick her up.

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

4. About what does Stella say life isn't convenient?
(a) That the rain will come right after planting the flower garden.
(b) That the bus pulls up a moment after the two arrive at the bus stop.
(c) A cousin dying so that Stella might receive an inheritance.
(d) That the rain and fog will quit before a party Stella and Angela are planning.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the man dressed who was cavorting around on the graves at the village concert?

2. What does Dalgliesh figure about the window above the bathrooms?

3. Who is Brenda Pridmore?

4. By what is Cliff Bradley deeply intimidated?

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

(see the answer key)

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