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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) Start resusitation upon Stella.
(c) Handcuff Domenica.
(d) Call 911.

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

3. What does Mr. Lorrimer ask when he breaks down emotionally?
(a) What will happen his son's dog and cats.
(b) Why would anyone kill his son.
(c) Who will care for him now.
(d) Why would someone kill his wife years ago and now his son.

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

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

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

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

8. How is the man seen running from the lab the night before described?
(a) Not too old and wearing some sort of coat.
(b) Tall, thin and bald.
(c) Very short and someone fat.
(d) The witness does not see anything about the person.

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

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

11. What new information does Domenica give the detectives?
(a) That she saw Dr. Lorrimer being murdered.
(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 is having an affair with Inspector Doyle.

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

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

14. What has Dalgliesh discovered on his first day of investigating?
(a) No real motives.
(b) That Scotland Yard is not liked in this small village.
(c) That the townspeople are in general uncooperative.
(d) Plenty of possible motives.

15. What does Nell ask Dalgliesh and Massingham?
(a) If they have found the murderer yet.
(b) If they are there to question her and her brother, William.
(c) If her dad is a suspect.
(d) If the detectives would like some ice cream.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Domenica's occupation?

2. What is the name of Dr. Lorrimer's home?

3. How long has Mawson been dead?

4. Why is Brenda's mother unhappy?

5. For how long has Domenica been widowed?

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