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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What about the concert facility does Dalgliesh question Middlemass?
(a) Dalgliesh is not concerned about the layout.
(b) The layout.
(c) The colors of the walls.
(d) The cemetary nearby.

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

3. Why does Director Howarth know Dr. Lorrimer looked at a book on Howarth's desk?
(a) It was put back on the shelf.
(b) He is not sure if Dr. Lorrimer looked at it.
(c) The book was on the table when it had been on the desk.
(d) It was open to a different page than the one to which Howarth had it turned.

4. What is Dr. Kerrison's biggest concern as he is leaving?
(a) The need for speed.
(b) That he forgets his coffee on the kitchen counter.
(c) Not waking up his daughter.
(d) The neighbors seeing him.

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

6. Who is Dr. Kerrison?
(a) A forensic pathologist.
(b) A psychiatrist.
(c) A professor.
(d) A neurologist.

7. Who first arrives at the lab in Book 2, Chapter 1?
(a) Brenda Pridmore alone.
(b) Inspector Blakelock alone.
(c) Brenda Pridmore and Inspector Blakelock.
(d) Dr. Kerrison.

8. What does Middlemass fail to tell Dalgliesh?
(a) That Dr. Lorrimer was hostile to Easterbrook.
(b) About the fact that Dr. Lorrimer fell apart on the stand in the last trial.
(c) That Middlemass had fought with Dr. Lorrimer on other occasions.
(d) About the phone call from Susan Bradley.

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

10. What is the major line of questioning Dalgliesh takes with Middlemass?
(a) How Middlemass logs in documents he is assessing.
(b) How Middlemass logs in people who come and go from his office.
(c) About the fight between Dr. Lorrimer and Middlemass.
(d) What interaction there is between Dr. Lorrimer's staff and

11. What is the significance of the mallet being in Dr. Lorrimer's lab?
(a) It belongs in the autopsy room.
(b) It has never been seen by anyone before.
(c) It belongs in the forensics lab.
(d) It is evidence in another case.

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

13. Why does Mrs. Bidwell not have to do much in Director Howarth's office?
(a) He is rarely there.
(b) Mrs. Bidwell and Director Howarth do not get along very well.
(c) He is meticulous.
(d) He likes to do most of the cleaning up himself.

14. What does Detective-Inspector Doyle believe is a good investment?
(a) His wife.
(b) Some stocks he recently purchases.
(c) His house.
(d) His car.

15. 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 does Susan think she will talk to for help about Cliff?

2. What does Dalgliesh want to be recovered in the bathroom sink?

3. What is missing that belonged to Middlemass's deceased father?

4. Where was Director Howarth the night before?

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

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