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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 does Stella have that Angela wants her to give the detectives?
(a) A knife.
(b) A broken handle like the one from the mallet.
(c) A lab coat.
(d) A letter.

2. Why does Angela Foley's grandmother not raise Angela?
(a) The grandmother was too poor.
(b) The grandmother despised Angela's mother.
(c) The grandmother dies just days after Angela's mother.
(d) The grandmother was mentally incompetent.

3. What does Dalgliesh think about on the helicopter flight to Chevisham?
(a) If Dr. Lorrimer has a wife or children.
(b) If Massingham is competent since he's never worked with Massinham.
(c) His partner's background.
(d) Whether he'd be back by the end of the week.

4. What does Blakelock tell Howarth when he comes back downstairs?
(a) That Dr. Lorrimer is upstairs murdered.
(b) That no one is in the lab but it is unsecured.
(c) That Dr. Kerrison is unconscious upstairs and Lorrimer is dead.
(d) That the cleaning woman is upstairs in a dead faint.

5. Who witnesses the exchange between Middlemass and Lorrimer?
(a) Dr. Kerrison.
(b) Director Howarth.
(c) Brenda Pridmore.
(d) Mrs. Bidwell.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mercer do after offering Dalgliesh assistance?

2. What does Brenda need to learn according to her supervisor?

3. Who rummaged through the upstairs of Mr. Lorrimer's house earlier in the day?

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

5. Why is Howarth upset with Lorrimer?

(see the answer key)

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