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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4: Hanged by the Neck, Chapters 6-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do Pridmore and Howarth discuss?
(a) Pridmore going to school in London.
(b) The comparison of the process of scientific research to that of murder detective work.
(c) Whether Pridmore will accept the inheritance from Dr. Lorrimer.
(d) Pridmore working her way in to a biologist position at the lab.

3. To whose car are the tire tracks matched?
(a) Director Howarth.
(b) Dr. Kerrison.
(c) Dr. Lorrimer.
(d) Inspector Doyle.

4. What does Middlemass emphasis in his responses to Dalgliesh?
(a) The story of Middlemass's son and Dr. Lorrimer.
(b) The story of Middlemass's nephew and Dr. Lorrimer.
(c) Middlemass's dislike of Dr. Lorrimer.
(d) The story of Middlemass's wife and Dr. Lorrimer.

5. What is in the lab that is likely the murder weapon?
(a) A bloody mallet.
(b) Nothing that Dalgliesh can see.
(c) A bloody dissection knife.
(d) A noose lying on the counter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Inspector Blakelock?

2. What about the concert facility does Dalgliesh question Middlemass?

3. What does Blakelock tell Howarth when he comes back downstairs?

4. Who is Alfred Goddard?

5. How do most of the staff seem to respond to Dr. Lorrimer's murder?

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