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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When do Dalgliesh and Massingham visit Dr. Kerrison?
(a) At the morgue during lunch.
(b) At lunch at the lab.
(c) Early in the morning at his home.
(d) Late at night at his home.

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

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

4. What is Domenica's attitude towards the detectives?
(a) Completely hostile.
(b) Tearful.
(c) Neither warm nor hostile.
(d) Very warm and friendly.

5. Who sees Dr. Lorrimer dead but leaves the scene without telling anyone?
(a) Domenica Schofield.
(b) Cliff Bradley.
(c) No one.
(d) Director Howarth.

6. What happens two months prior to Dr. Lorrimer's death?
(a) His affair with Domenica ends.
(b) He travels to Ireland with Domenica.
(c) It is when Domenica flirts with Dr. Lorrimer to unsuccessfully seduce him.
(d) He ends an affair with Brenda Pridmore.

7. What do the detectives immediately see upon opening the chapel door?
(a) Domenica opening a trunk in the sacristy.
(b) It is dark and they see nothing.
(c) Stella Mawson's body.
(d) Angela holding Stella's legs.

8. What do Pridmore and Howarth discuss?
(a) Pridmore working her way in to a biologist position at the lab.
(b) The comparison of the process of scientific research to that of murder detective work.
(c) Whether Pridmore will accept the inheritance from Dr. Lorrimer.
(d) Pridmore going to school in London.

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

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

11. What does Dalgliesh believe about Stella's death?
(a) She committed suicide.
(b) She was murdered.
(c) She had help in committing suicide.
(d) He has no idea until after the autopsy.

12. Who is Alfred Goddard?
(a) A witness who was riding the bus the night of the murder.
(b) Angela Foley's father.
(c) Dr. Lorrimer's gardener.
(d) Dr. Lorrimer's solicitor.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the detectives do immediately?

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

3. How is the man seen running from the lab the night before described?

4. What have the returned lab tests on the case shown?

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

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