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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 sees Dr. Lorrimer dead but leaves the scene without telling anyone?
(a) Cliff Bradley.
(b) Domenica Schofield.
(c) Director Howarth.
(d) No one.

2. Who is Alfred Goddard?
(a) Dr. Lorrimer's gardener.
(b) Dr. Lorrimer's solicitor.
(c) Angela Foley's father.
(d) A witness who was riding the bus the night of the murder.

3. What is the most striking thing about Dr. Lorrimer's room?
(a) The fact that there is very little in the room.
(b) A huge chart of the milky way galaxy.
(c) The large number of books.
(d) The collection of toy soldiers lining shelves on the wall.

4. Who is Miss Williard?
(a) The next-door neighbor of the Kerrisons.
(b) The Kerrison's housekeeper.
(c) The lab's librarian.
(d) The town's librarian.

5. What is Brenda looking for in the files in Dr. Howarth's office?
(a) Any mention of an argument between Dr. Lorrimer and any other staff member.
(b) Any mistake in the staining process.
(c) Any that mention the numbers eighteen or forty burned candles.
(d) Any mention of Dr. Lorrimer and his affair with Howarth's sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Domenica live?

2. What are Massingham and Dalgliesh doing when they hear chapel bells?

3. To what does Director Howarth think back?

4. What does Brenda do before she faints.

5. What happens to Dr. Lorrimer for about six months?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dalgliesh find during his search of the chapel?

2. What does Dalgliesh learn upon interviewing Inspector Doyle?

3. Describe Inspector Doyle.

4. Who do Dalgliesh and Massingham meet upon arriving at the Lorrimer cottage and what do they learn from the person?

5. What does Major Hunt tell Dalgliesh and Massingham about Dr. Lorrimer's will?

6. What does Bradley tell Dalgliesh when questioned about the vomit?

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

8. Describe the scene at the chapel when Dalgliesh and Massingham arrive and what do they do.

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

10. What does Dalgliesh learn from Miss Willard?

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