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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 was too poor.
(b) The grandmother dies just days after Angela's mother.
(c) The grandmother was mentally incompetent.
(d) The grandmother despised Angela's mother.

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

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

4. What does Brenda's mother insist that Brenda tell the police?
(a) About overhearing an arugment between Kerrison and Dr. Lorrimer.
(b) That the evidence bags were tampered with on the day of the murder.
(c) About overhearing an arugment between Foley and Dr. Lorrimer.
(d) About overhearing an arugment between Mawson and Dr. Lorrimer.

5. For what does Angela want to search?
(a) The old will of Dr. Lorrimer's.
(b) A puppy.
(c) A new job.
(d) A new home.

6. When does Dr. Lorrimer change his will?
(a) The week before his death.
(b) He doesn't.
(c) The month before his death.
(d) The day before his death.

7. What does Domenica look like?
(a) She looks like a Mother Superior.
(b) She is knock-dead gorgeous.
(c) She looks like a mouse in a church.
(d) Her looks are not described.

8. What mystery does Dalgliesh solve in the chapel?
(a) Why Domenica said she had sex in the car.
(b) Who Brenda saw in the new lab.
(c) What the caller who talked to Mr. Bidwell wanted.
(d) The meaning of the numbers that Mr. Lorrimer tells Dalgliesh about.

9. What new information does Domenica give the detectives?
(a) That she is having an affair with Inspector Doyle.
(b) That Dr. Lorrimer was having an affair with Angela Foley.
(c) The fact that Dr. Lorrimer and Stella Mawson were once married.
(d) That she saw Dr. Lorrimer being murdered.

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

11. Why is Mr. Bidwell interviewed?
(a) He may be the man standing inside the bus stop shelter.
(b) He heard an altercation between Dr. Lorrimer and William Kerrison.
(c) He witnessed a man climbing out of the bathroom window at the lab.
(d) He took a call and message for his wife.

12. What do the detectives hear moaning?
(a) Brenda Pridmore.
(b) Dr. Kerrison.
(c) Domenica.
(d) A dog.

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

14. What does Howarth tell Brenda Pridmore when she arrives at work?
(a) That she is to work with Howarth for the day.
(b) That she is to be promoted.
(c) That she is fired.
(d) That she will lose her job if she is late again.

15. What does Angela do when she learns of Stella's death?
(a) Runs screaming after the mortuary gurney.
(b) Faints.
(c) Attacks Director Howarth.
(d) Attacks Domenica.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Dalgliesh discovered on his first day of investigating?

2. What does Doyle plan to do about his job?

3. What does Stella probably know?

4. Whose letters do the detectives find in a locked drawer in Dr. Lorrimer's room?

5. To what does Director Howarth think back?

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