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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 is all the staff required to do in the library?
(a) Write down all their activities for the past 24 hours.
(b) Talk to Howarth who dismisses them one by one.
(c) Stay there until that evening.
(d) Read up on investigative law for their particular situation.

2. What does Nell do with the candle?
(a) Burns her palm.
(b) Heats the wax doll and destroys it.
(c) Heats the coffee in the mug.
(d) Burns her teddy bear.

3. Who is Inspector Blakelock?
(a) The detective from the county seat.
(b) Brenda Pridmore's supervisor at Hoggatts Lab.
(c) The local police investigator.
(d) A detective from Scotland Yard.

4. Who is Maxim Howarth?
(a) The investigator on the young woman's murder case.
(b) A police officer.
(c) The newly-appointed Director of the Forensic Science Laboratory.
(d) A detective from Scotland Yard.

5. What do the detectives think about Mrs. Bidwell's version of the fight between Middlemass and Lorrimer?
(a) That it is a figment of Mrs. Bidwell's amble imagination.
(b) That it did not take place at all.
(c) That the fight was over Domenica.
(d) They are unsure about of the story is accurate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cliff Bradley ask Middlemass?

2. Who calls searching for Dr. Lorrimer?

3. What does Mercer do?

4. Who interrupts the meeting between Howarth and Dr. Lorrimer?

5. What does Blakelock tell Howarth when he comes back downstairs?

Short Essay Questions

1. How helpful is the interview with Cliff Bradley for Dalgliesh?

2. Describe Dr. Kerrison.

3. What does Brenda Pridmore talk about with her parents at breakfast and what is their reaction?

4. Describe the conversation between Brenda Pridmore and Adam Dalgliesh.

5. What upsets Director Howarth about Dr. Lorrimer?

6. About what does Adam Dalgliesh speak to his boss?

7. Describe Mrs. Bidwell.

8. Describe the scene between Cliff and Susan Bradley as she is breastfeeding their new baby.

9. Describe the conversation between Inspector Blakelock and Adam Dalgliesh and what Dalgliesh seems to be quite concerned about during the questioning.

10. Why is Dr. Lorrimer's father calling and what does Brenda offer to do?

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