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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 11-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who cleans up after the meeting with the senior scientists?
(a) Brenda Pridmore.
(b) Starr.
(c) Angela Foley.
(d) Director Howarth.

2. What does Dalgliesh figure about the window above the bathrooms?
(a) Dalgliesh does not notice the window.
(b) That a slender person could conceivably make it to the ground that way.
(c) That the window is painted shut and inoperable.
(d) That no one could conceivably make it to the ground that way.

3. About whom does Kerrison think on the drive to the murder site?
(a) The pathologist at the main hospital.
(b) The way the mist is rising off his car meaning it will be a hot day.
(c) The senior biologist.
(d) Why he is not out fishing on such a lovely morning.

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

5. What encounter does Blakelock describe to Dalgliesh?
(a) Between Dr. Lorrimer and Howarth.
(b) Between Dr. Lorrimer and Middlemass.
(c) Between Dr. Lorrimer and Nan Kerrison.
(d) Between Dr. Lorrimer and Pridmore.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Howarth upset with Lorrimer?

2. Why does Stella hire Angela?

3. What important piece of information does Dalgliesh learn from his first interviewee?`

4. How does Inspector Blakelock behave while being questioned by Dalgliesh?

5. What does Cliff Bradley ask Middlemass?

(see the answer key)

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