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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the driver of the bus and conductor see?
(a) A woman standing inside the bus stop shelter.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A young man standing inside the bus stop shelter.
(d) A woman with two young children standing inside the bus stop shelter.

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

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

4. What mystery does Dalgliesh solve in the chapel?
(a) Why Domenica said she had sex in the car.
(b) Who Brenda saw in the new lab.
(c) What the caller who talked to Mr. Bidwell wanted.
(d) The meaning of the numbers that Mr. Lorrimer tells Dalgliesh about.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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.

13. What is the name of Dr. Lorrimer's home?
(a) Coldstone Cottage.
(b) Postmill Cottage.
(c) Pastime Cottage.
(d) Cod Cottage.

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

15. How does the rector's wife describe Mr. Lorrimer and his son?
(a) Reclusive.
(b) Friendly and outgoing.
(c) Hostile and abusive.
(d) Unfriendly.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dr. Kerrison appear as he is answering Dalgliesh's questions?

2. Who does Dalgliesh meet outside Mr. Lorrmier's home?

3. For what does Angela want to search?

4. For how long has Domenica been widowed?

5. What is the most striking thing about Dr. Lorrimer's room?

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