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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Brenda looking for in the files in Dr. Howarth's office?
(a) Any mention of an argument between Dr. Lorrimer and any other staff member.
(b) Any mistake in the staining process.
(c) Any mention of Dr. Lorrimer and his affair with Howarth's sister.
(d) Any that mention the numbers eighteen or forty burned candles.

2. Where is Doyle parked the night of the murder of Lorrimer?
(a) At the village concert.
(b) At the Catholic church.
(c) At home.
(d) At the lab.

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

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

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

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

8. Of what does Mawson say Bradley probably reminds Dr. Lorrimer?
(a) Lorrimer's first boss.
(b) Lorrimer's father.
(c) Himself.
(d) Lorrimer's brother.

9. What is Doyle doing in his car?
(a) He is not in his car.
(b) On a stake out.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Having sex with a woman he picks up.

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

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

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

13. How does Domenica characterize Dr. Lorrimer?
(a) Childish and whiney about the end of the affair.
(b) Cruel when he ends the affair with her.
(c) Meanspirited when she flirted with him.
(d) As verbally abusive.

14. What is Domenica's occupation?
(a) A nun.
(b) A secretary.
(c) An artist.
(d) A pilot.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do Dalgliesh and Massingham visit in relation to Doyle?

2. What does Brenda see in the chapel?

3. Who lives at Sprogg's Cottage?

4. What does Angela do when she learns of Stella's death?

5. What does Howarth tell Brenda Pridmore when she arrives at work?

(see the answer keys)

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