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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Brenda Pridmore start to do but then stops?
(a) Call Dr. Lorrimer's father.
(b) Quit her job.
(c) Tell Easterbrook that Dr. Lorrimer was secretly in love with her.
(d) Give an additional piece of information to Dalgliesh.

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

3. Who seems emotionally immune to the process of an autopsy?
(a) Dr. Lorrimer.
(b) Brenda Pridmore.
(c) Dr. Kerrison.
(d) Inspector Blakelock.

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

5. What prints are found on the mallet?
(a) Only those of the owner.
(b) Brenda Pridmore and Dr. Kerrison.
(c) Paul Middlemass.
(d) None.

6. What does Nell have in her hand?
(a) Her teddy bear.
(b) Her father's coffee mug.
(c) A wax figure that represents Dr. Lorrimer.
(d) A cross.

7. What important piece of information does Dalgliesh learn from his first interviewee?`
(a) That someone has torn a page out of Dr. Lorrimer's notebook.
(b) That Dr. Lorrimer hated Domenica.
(c) That Dr. Lorrimer was planning to resign.
(d) That Dr. Lorrimer had a date the night before.

8. Who is Inspector Blakelock?
(a) A detective from Scotland Yard.
(b) The detective from the county seat.
(c) The local police investigator.
(d) Brenda Pridmore's supervisor at Hoggatts Lab.

9. Who stays with Mr. Lorrimer immediately after the news of his son's death is given him?
(a) Angela and Stella.
(b) His neighbor.
(c) The priest.
(d) His daughter.

10. What does Cliff Bradley ask Middlemass?
(a) If Middlemass talked with Susan Bradley the day before.
(b) If Middlemass thinks Bradley committed the murder.
(c) If Middlemass would lie for Bradley.
(d) Nothing.

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

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

13. About what does Susan Bradley call Middlemass?
(a) To offer her assistance with his backlog.
(b) To intevene for Cliff.
(c) To ask him to dinner.
(d) To ask for her old job back.

14. How do most of the staff seem to respond to Dr. Lorrimer's murder?
(a) They seem unaffected.
(b) They seem jubilant.
(c) They are quite distraught.
(d) They are horrified.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the men discuss at the murder scene?

2. About what does Stella say life isn't convenient?

3. Who cleans up after the meeting with the senior scientists?

4. What is the major line of questioning Dalgliesh takes with Middlemass?

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

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