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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Angela Foley's grandmother not raise Angela?
(a) The grandmother despised Angela's mother.
(b) The grandmother was too poor.
(c) The grandmother was mentally incompetent.
(d) The grandmother dies just days after Angela's mother.

2. About what does Howarth blame himself?
(a) For allowing Domenica to become involved with Dr. Lorrimer.
(b) For not seeing how close to the edge Cliff is.
(c) For the rift between him and his kids.
(d) For Dr. Lorrimer's death.

3. According to Mr. Lorrimer, for what does his son live?
(a) His social activities in London.
(b) Work.
(c) God.
(d) His sister.

4. Whose letters do the detectives find in a locked drawer in Dr. Lorrimer's room?
(a) Dr. Kerrison.
(b) Domenica.
(c) Dr. Lorrimer's mother.
(d) Brenda Pridmore.

5. How does Stella Mawson seem as Dalgliesh questions her?
(a) Veiled hostility.
(b) Openly hostile.
(c) Reluctant.
(d) Congenial and open.

6. Of what does Mawson say Bradley probably reminds Dr. Lorrimer?
(a) Lorrimer's first boss.
(b) Himself.
(c) Lorrimer's father.
(d) Lorrimer's brother.

7. What does Stella probably know?
(a) Why Dr. Lorrimer wanted to change his will.
(b) The name of Dr. Lorrimer's killer.
(c) A way to void the new will of Dr. Lorrimer.
(d) A new plot for a book that will bring the two women money.

8. Why is Brenda's mother unhappy?
(a) That Brenda wants to quit her job.
(b) That Dr. Lorrimer leaves her 1000 pounds.
(c) That Brenda's boyfriend thinks she was involved with Dr. Lorrimer.
(d) That Brenda is still crying about finding Dr. Lorrimer's body.

9. Who is Domenica Schofield?
(a) Director Howarth's half-sister.
(b) Director Howarth's sister-in-law.
(c) The witness on the bus.
(d) The evidence lab recorder.

10. Who does Dalgliesh meet outside Mr. Lorrmier's home?
(a) Winifred Swaffield.
(b) Angela Foley.
(c) Stella Mawson.
(d) Dr. Kerrison.

11. Who lives at Sprogg's Cottage?
(a) Brenda Pridmore and her parents.
(b) Angela Foley and Stella Mawson.
(c) Director Howarth.
(d) Dr. Kerrison and his family.

12. What does Brenda see in the chapel?
(a) Dr. Kerrison hitting Stella Mawson.
(b) Dr. Lorrimer's ghost.
(c) Domenica hiding something.
(d) Stella Mawson's body hanging from a rope.

13. Why does Brenda decide to cut through the new lab construction site?
(a) Her tires are flat and she wants to get home quickly.
(b) She wants to see how the contruction is progressing.
(c) She wants to pick some flowers in the chapel garden.
(d) She decides not to cut through the site.

14. How does Stella Mawson appear to Dalgliesh?
(a) Not at peaceful.
(b) Resigned.
(c) Peaceful.
(d) Terrified.

15. About what does the rector's wife talk non-stop?
(a) The fate of Dr. Lorrimer's mother.
(b) What the village believes happened to Dr. Lorrimer.
(c) Dr. Lorrimer as a child.
(d) Jesus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Lorrimer ask when he breaks down emotionally?

2. How does Dr. Kerrison appear as he is answering Dalgliesh's questions?

3. Who rummaged through the upstairs of Mr. Lorrimer's house earlier in the day?

4. What happens to Dr. Lorrimer for about six months?

5. What does Stella have that Angela wants her to give the detectives?

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