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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the detectives do immediately?
(a) Run after a figure they see in the gardens.
(b) Call 911.
(c) Start resusitation upon Stella.
(d) Handcuff Domenica.

2. What does Brenda do before she faints.
(a) Screams.
(b) Hits Dr. Kerrison.
(c) Calls Dalgliesh on the chapel phone.
(d) Rings the chapel bell.

3. What does Doyle plan to do about his job?
(a) Resign it.
(b) He does not mention his job.
(c) Ask for a transfer.
(d) Ask for a promotion.

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

5. What time does Miss Williard know Dr. Kerrison is at home the night of the murder?
(a) 9 p.m.
(b) She has no idea.
(c) She is unwilling to tell the detectives.
(d) 7 p.m.

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

7. What happens when Brenda is walking home?
(a) She is met by Dr. Kerrison.
(b) Her over-active imagination sees things.
(c) She is singing.
(d) She is met by Doyle.

8. Who is Miss Williard?
(a) The Kerrison's housekeeper.
(b) The town's librarian.
(c) The lab's librarian.
(d) The next-door neighbor of the Kerrisons.

9. Who takes Brenda Pridmore home?
(a) Dalgliesh.
(b) Massinghamd and Dalgliesh.
(c) Massingham.
(d) Domenica Schofield.

10. What does Stella say her publisher has for her?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Money.
(c) A bonus assignment.
(d) A new assignment.

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

12. What does Mr. Lorrimer remember about a conversation with a woman who calls earlier in the week?
(a) That she is angry with Dr. Lorrimer.
(b) That she leaves a message with the numbers 1840 at the end.
(c) That she is crying as she leaves the message.
(d) He cannot remember anything about the conversation.

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

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

15. To what does Domenica admit?
(a) Being at the bus stop the night of the murder.
(b) An affair with Dr. Lorrimer.
(c) Flirting with Dr. Lorrimer, but it never went further.
(d) Being in the lab the night of the murder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Domenica's attitude towards the detectives?

2. About what does Howarth blame himself?

3. Who is Alfred Goddard?

4. How long has Mawson been dead?

5. About what does Dalgliesh question Dr. Kerrison concerning Nell?

(see the answer keys)

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