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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 the caller tell Mrs. Bidwell early in the morning?
(a) That the person who gives her a ride to work is unable to pick her up.
(b) That her son was ill and she needs to go to London.
(c) That her husband is in the hospital.
(d) Not to come in to work at the lab that morning.

2. What is lying open on the table?
(a) A tube of acid.
(b) Lorrimer's notebook.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A staining solution.

3. What does Brenda need to learn according to her supervisor?
(a) To greet visitors with confidence.
(b) To be more detached.
(c) To log in evidence correctly.
(d) To coordinate lab activities.

4. What does Middlemass do to Dr. Lorrimer?
(a) Tell him to leave Brenda alone.
(b) Punch him in the face.
(c) Fire him.
(d) Give him the wrong documents and embarrass him.

5. What does Dr. Lorrimer inherit from his grandmother?
(a) A citeron.
(b) 30,000 pounds.
(c) 100,000 pounds.
(d) A Citroen.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the man dressed who was cavorting around on the graves at the village concert?

2. How do Brenda's parents feel about her job?

3. Why does Stella hire Angela?

4. Who is entering the lab as Dr. Lorrimer is being removed?

5. What does Middlemass emphasis in his responses to Dalgliesh?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What upsets Director Howarth about Dr. Lorrimer?

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

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

6. What does Howarth talk to Dr. Lorrimer about and what is the outcome?

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

8. Describe Adam Dalgliesh.

9. What does Howarth do after Dalgliesh arrives and what does Dalgliesh learn about the case?

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

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