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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Where is Eleanor Kerrison sitting?
(a) In the family room.
(b) In the kitchen.
(c) On the top step.
(d) Up in her bed.

6. What is all the staff required to do in the library?
(a) Read up on investigative law for their particular situation.
(b) Talk to Howarth who dismisses them one by one.
(c) Write down all their activities for the past 24 hours.
(d) Stay there until that evening.

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

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

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

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

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

12. What does Nell do with the candle?
(a) Burns her teddy bear.
(b) Heats the coffee in the mug.
(c) Burns her palm.
(d) Heats the wax doll and destroys it.

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Dalgliesh question Dr. Kerrison?

2. Why does Mrs. Bidwell not have to do much in Director Howarth's office?

3. Who is teaching Brenda?

4. Who from Scotland Yard is assigned to come to Chevisham to investigate a murder?

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

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