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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Dalgliesh trying to accurately understand?
(a) How Dr. Kerrison is able to pinpoint the time of death so accurately.
(b) The key and security situation at the lab.
(c) Why Brenda Pridmore is the one sent to find Dr. Lorrimer's body.
(d) How someone else got into the lab through the restroom window.

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

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

4. 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) Why he is not out fishing on such a lovely morning.
(d) The senior biologist.

5. What does Angela call Stella Mawson?
(a) Stellie.
(b) Tella.
(c) Maw.
(d) Star.

6. Who chats openly and honestly with Dalgliesh?
(a) Director Howarth.
(b) Angela Foley.
(c) Dr. Kerrison.
(d) Brenda Pridmore.

7. 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 autopsy room.
(c) It has never been seen by anyone before.
(d) It belongs in the forensics lab.

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

9. Who does Dalgliesh first interview in opening his investigation into the murder of Dr. Lorrimer?
(a) Brenda Pridmore.
(b) Dr. Kerrison.
(c) Director Howarth.
(d) Claire Easterbrook.

10. What does Howarth think to himself about Lorrimer as they are wrapping up the crime scene?
(a) How he hates Dr. Lorrimer.
(b) How much he admires Dr. Lorrimer's work.
(c) How much he admires Dr. Lorrimer's affability.
(d) How he wishes Dr. Lorrimer would resign.

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

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

13. About what is Massingham happy when they land?
(a) To be working with the famed Adam Dalgliesh.
(b) To be off the helicopter.
(c) Nothing in particular.
(d) The country air and taking on a murder investigation.

14. What does Dalgliesh think of the people in the library?
(a) That several of them are lying.
(b) That they are hiding something from him.
(c) That none of them is probably the murderer.
(d) That all of them probably know the murderer.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Dr. Kerrison's biggest concern as he is leaving?

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

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

5. Why is Howarth upset with Lorrimer?

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