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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Massingham and Dalgliesh doing when they hear chapel bells?
(a) Talking to Inspector Doyle at the police station.
(b) In their hotel rooms near the chapel.
(c) Sitting in a car talking about the case.
(d) In the lab office.

2. To what does Director Howarth think back?
(a) His care of his sister.
(b) Nothing.
(c) His competition with Dr. Lorrimer.
(d) His former wife.

3. What have the returned lab tests on the case shown?
(a) That someone's partial fingerprint is on the mallet.
(b) That horse's blood is on the mallet.
(c) They have not yet been returned.
(d) That Dr. Lorrimer's hairs are on the mallet.

4. How long has Mawson been dead?
(a) It is difficult to say.
(b) A few minutes.
(c) 1 hour.
(d) 2 hours.

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

6. About what does Dalgliesh question Dr. Kerrison concerning Nell?
(a) Why Nell does not speak.
(b) Where Nell was on the night of Dr. Lorrimer's murder.
(c) The run-in between Nell and Dr. Lorrimer.
(d) Why Nell hates Dr. Lorrimer.

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

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

9. What accounting does Mawson give Dalgliesh?
(a) The whereabouts of Foley and Mawson.
(b) The money Dr. Lorrimer has that is Foley's.
(c) The money Dr. Lorrimer lent Foley.
(d) The whereabouts of Dr. Lorrimer on the night of his death.

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

11. With whom does Miss Williard ride to church?
(a) Dr. Kerrison.
(b) Dr. Lorrimer.
(c) Director Howarth.
(d) The Pridmores.

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

13. What seems paradoxical about Mr. Lorrimer when he speaks of his son?
(a) He seems to both love and hate his son.
(b) He talks of him as if he were alive and yet also dead.
(c) He seems to both like and dislike his son.
(d) He seems both proud of and yet disparging of his son.

14. 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.

15. Who do Dalgliesh and Massingham visit in relation to Doyle?
(a) No one.
(b) The woman whom he picked up.
(c) Doyle's boss.
(d) Doyle's wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Howarth blame himself?

2. Where is Doyle parked the night of the murder of Lorrimer?

3. What does Dalgliesh believe about Stella's death?

4. How does Domenica characterize Dr. Lorrimer?

5. Who wants to see Dalgliesh after he is done at the Lorrimer house?

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