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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who requested that Angela check the keys in the safe?
(a) Easterbrook.
(b) Blakelock.
(c) Howarth.
(d) Dalgliesh.

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

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

5. Who is entering the lab as Dr. Lorrimer is being removed?
(a) No one.
(b) Mrs. Bidwell.
(c) Dr. Lorrimer's father.
(d) Angela Foley.

6. Who does Susan think she will talk to for help about Cliff?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Howarth.
(c) Mr. Middlemass.
(d) Dr. Kerrison.

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

8. Who interrupts the meeting between Howarth and Dr. Lorrimer?
(a) Angela Foley.
(b) Domenica.
(c) Paul Middlemass.
(d) Dr. Kerrison.

9. About what does Dalgliesh question Dr. Kerrison?
(a) The cause and time of death.
(b) Why Dr. Kerrison seems interested in seeing Dr. Lorrimer.
(c) Where Dr. Kerrison was the night before.
(d) Whether Nell Kerrison could have done this.

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

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

12. About what does Stella say life isn't convenient?
(a) That the rain and fog will quit before a party Stella and Angela are planning.
(b) That the rain will come right after planting the flower garden.
(c) That the bus pulls up a moment after the two arrive at the bus stop.
(d) A cousin dying so that Stella might receive an inheritance.

13. Where does the interview with Angela Foley take place?
(a) In the Director's office.
(b) In Dr. Lorrimer's lab.
(c) In Angela's home.
(d) In the library.

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

15. Who is Paul Middlemass?
(a) Supervisor of the Document Examination Room.
(b) The Constable.
(c) The Police Chief.
(d) The detective in charge of the homicide division.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dalgliesh figure about the window above the bathrooms?

2. About what can Director Howarth not offer accurate answers?

3. What does Dalgliesh think about on the helicopter flight to Chevisham?

4. What does Mrs. Bidwell explain to Dalgliesh?

5. What is in the lab that is likely the murder weapon?

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