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

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 waking up to breast-feed her new baby.
(c) She is cooking breakfast.
(d) She is asleep.

2. Who is Maxim Howarth?
(a) The newly-appointed Director of the Forensic Science Laboratory.
(b) The investigator on the young woman's murder case.
(c) A police officer.
(d) A detective from Scotland Yard.

3. Where was Director Howarth the night before?
(a) At a woman's house for dinner.
(b) In London.
(c) At the village concert.
(d) At his mother's home.

4. Who checks the keys in the safe with Angela on the morning of Dr. Lorrimer's death?
(a) Pridmore.
(b) Blakelock.
(c) Howarth.
(d) She does the check by herself.

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

6. By what is Cliff Bradley deeply intimidated?
(a) Susan's mother who is visiting that evening.
(b) The idea of taking care of the new baby.
(c) The thought that he might have to take over an ongoing murder investigation.
(d) Dr. Lorrimer.

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

8. In what does Dr. Lorrimer get Brenda interested?
(a) Finding minute particles of an alien substance.
(b) Biology and what can be learned under a microscope.
(c) Reading DNA strands.
(d) In how to create stains.

9. What does Cliff Bradley assert over and over to Dalgliesh?
(a) That Dr. Lorrimer and Blakelock argued frequently.
(b) That he knows nothing about any aspect of the crime.
(c) That Dr. Lorrimer was hated by almost everyone.
(d) That Dr. Lorrimer and Howarth disagreed frequently.

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

11. About what does Howarth have a conference with Dr. Lorrimer?
(a) The sloppy lab procedures.
(b) Training Brenda Pridmore to create stains.
(c) Training Angela Foley to keep the lab reports up to date.
(d) Cliff Bradley's evaluation.

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

13. What do the detectives think about Mrs. Bidwell's version of the fight between Middlemass and Lorrimer?
(a) They are unsure about of the story is accurate.
(b) That the fight was over Domenica.
(c) That it is a figment of Mrs. Bidwell's amble imagination.
(d) That it did not take place at all.

14. Who is teaching Brenda?
(a) Cliff Bradley.
(b) Dr. Kerrison.
(c) Mr. Howarth.
(d) Dr. Lorrimer.

15. What is Middlemass's role in the halftime entertainment at the village concert the night of the murder of Dr. Lorrimer?
(a) A guitar solo.
(b) A violin solo.
(c) A singer.
(d) That of a hobbyhorse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the significance of the mallet being in Dr. Lorrimer's lab?

2. What does Angela call Stella Mawson?

3. Who is Brenda Pridmore?

4. What does Nell do with the candle?

5. What does Mercer do after offering Dalgliesh assistance?

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