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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. Who is a cousin to Dr. Lorrimer?
(a) Angela.
(b) Dr. Kerrison.
(c) Brenda.
(d) Stella.

2. Who chats openly and honestly with Dalgliesh?
(a) Angela Foley.
(b) Brenda Pridmore.
(c) Director Howarth.
(d) Dr. Kerrison.

3. What does Dalgliesh figure about the window above the bathrooms?
(a) That the window is painted shut and inoperable.
(b) That no one could conceivably make it to the ground that way.
(c) That a slender person could conceivably make it to the ground that way.
(d) Dalgliesh does not notice the window.

4. What does Mercer do?
(a) Requests to stay on the case.
(b) Confirms arrangements for police guards and the packaging of evidence to go the Scotland Yard.
(c) Tells Dalgliesh his agency is out of order for coming in on the case.
(d) Lies about his whereabouts the night before.

5. How is Angela during her initial interview with Dalgliesh?
(a) Reserved.
(b) Open.
(c) Hostile.
(d) Indifferent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who cleans up after the meeting with the senior scientists?

2. What does the caller tell Mrs. Bidwell early in the morning?

3. What surprises Brenda Pridmore?

4. What does Brenda need to learn according to her supervisor?

5. What about the concert facility does Dalgliesh question Middlemass?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What upsets Director Howarth about Dr. Lorrimer?

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

4. Describe the conversation between Angela Foley and Adam Dalgliesh.

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

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

7. Describe Brenda Pridmore.

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

9. Describe Angela Foley.

10. What does Mrs. Bidwell show Dalgliesh?

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