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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. To whose car are the tire tracks matched?
(a) Director Howarth.
(b) Dr. Lorrimer.
(c) Inspector Doyle.
(d) Dr. Kerrison.

2. How does Stella Mawson seem as Dalgliesh questions her?
(a) Openly hostile.
(b) Veiled hostility.
(c) Congenial and open.
(d) Reluctant.

3. Why is Brenda's mother unhappy?
(a) That Brenda is still crying about finding Dr. Lorrimer's body.
(b) That Dr. Lorrimer leaves her 1000 pounds.
(c) That Brenda wants to quit her job.
(d) That Brenda's boyfriend thinks she was involved with Dr. Lorrimer.

4. What does Domenica look like?
(a) She is knock-dead gorgeous.
(b) Her looks are not described.
(c) She looks like a mouse in a church.
(d) She looks like a Mother Superior.

5. What does Stella have that Angela wants her to give the detectives?
(a) A letter.
(b) A knife.
(c) A lab coat.
(d) A broken handle like the one from the mallet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What accounting does Mawson give Dalgliesh?

2. What does Stella probably know?

3. What new information does Domenica give the detectives?

4. How long has Mawson been dead?

5. For what does Angela want to search?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Angela Foley do when she learns of Stella's death and what does Dalgliesh believe about the death?

2. Describe Domenica Schofield.

3. What do Angela Foley and Stella Mawson talk about before Stella leaves the house?

4. Why is Brenda Pridmore's mother upset and what does she want Brenda to tell Dalgliesh?

5. What do several witnesses on a bus tell the detectives?

6. Describe Brenda Pridmore's walk through the construction site.

7. Where do Dalgliesh and Massingham go at the opening of Book 4, Chapter 1 and what do they learn?

8. Describe Inspector Doyle.

9. Describe Miss Willard.

10. Describe Dr. Lorrimer.

(see the answer keys)

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