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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While investigating the light in the New Library, Harriet runs into a student doing what?
(a) Getting milk.
(b) Getting coffee.
(c) Finding a book.
(d) Taking a walk.

2. Who was the last person to handle Miss Lydgate's manuscript?
(a) Miss Barton.
(b) Miss Lydgate.
(c) Miss Hillyard.
(d) Miss Martin.

3. Whom was Shrewsbury College named after?
(a) Lord Shrewsbury, who first allowed women to attend Oxford.
(b) Mary, Countess of Shrewsbury, who was meek and mild mannered.
(c) Lord Shrewsbury, who founded the college.
(d) Mary, Countess of Shrewsbury, who was considered greater than her husband.

4. Where had the gowns been burnt?
(a) In the tower.
(b) In the chapel.
(c) In the library.
(d) In the quad.

5. At the end of Chapter 8, where does Harriet go for a soothing influence?
(a) Bath.
(b) Christ Church.
(c) London.
(d) Shrewsbury Chapel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who writes to Harriet, asking her to attend the opening of the new library at Shrewsbury College?

2. In Chapter 1, which old friend of Harriet's is ill and urges her to attend a school event?

3. Who hates Oxford and attends only because of her parents' wishes?

4. Whom do the Fellows and Tutors originally suspect as the culprit of the letters and vandalism?

5. What kind of weather does Harriet drive through at the beginning of Chapter 5?

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