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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mercer do after offering Dalgliesh assistance?
(a) Calls his supervisor.
(b) Goes back to continue questioning Hoggatt's staff.
(c) Leaves Hoggatt's lab.
(d) Resigns.

2. What is the major line of questioning Dalgliesh takes with Middlemass?
(a) About the fight between Dr. Lorrimer and Middlemass.
(b) What interaction there is between Dr. Lorrimer's staff and
(c) How Middlemass logs in documents he is assessing.
(d) How Middlemass logs in people who come and go from his office.

3. Where was Director Howarth the night before?
(a) At the village concert.
(b) At a woman's house for dinner.
(c) In London.
(d) At his mother's home.

4. What does Nell have in her hand?
(a) A wax figure that represents Dr. Lorrimer.
(b) Her father's coffee mug.
(c) Her teddy bear.
(d) A cross.

5. What does Mrs. Bidwell tell Dalgliesh about the lab coat?
(a) That Dr. Lorrimer's lab coat was blue rather than white.
(b) That Dr. Lorrimer never wore a lab coat.
(c) That the coat with Lorrimer's blood on it has disappeared.
(d) That the lab coat that Dr. Lorrimer accidentally burns is missing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Middlemass fail to tell Dalgliesh?

2. What is Dr. Kerrison's biggest concern as he is leaving?

3. Who is teaching Brenda?

4. In what does Dr. Lorrimer get Brenda interested?

5. Who is Paul Middlemass?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mrs. Bidwell show Dalgliesh?

2. How is the staff at Hoggatt's Lab sorted for who needs to stay and who may go home?

3. Describe Angela Foley.

4. What does Paul Middlemass tell Dalgliesh and about what does Middlemass lie?

5. Why is Dr. Kerrison leaving his home in the middle of the night and what is his biggest concern?

6. How do Angela Foley and Stella Mawson come to be living together?

7. Describe Brenda Pridmore.

8. Describe Adam Dalgliesh.

9. Describe Mrs. Bidwell.

10. What does Susan Bradley ask of Paul Middlemass and what does he do about the request?

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