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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does Peter believe will be the most likely targets of the culprit's next attack?
(a) Miss Newland, Harriet, and Miss Martin.
(b) Harriet, Peter, and another unnamed person.
(c) Harriet, Miss de Vine, and another unnamed person.
(d) Miss Martin, the Warden, and another unnamed person.

2. Mr. Arbuthnot tells Harriet that Peter is attached to what?
(a) The American government.
(b) Scotland Yard.
(c) Shrewsbury College.
(d) The Foreign Office.

3. Peter's nephew asks Harriet to forget about whom?
(a) Mr. Pomfret.
(b) Peter.
(c) The Viennese singer.
(d) The culprit of the Shrewsbury mysteries.

4. Who hates Oxford and attends only because of her parents' wishes?
(a) Miss Flaxman.
(b) Miss Mollison.
(c) Miss Briggs.
(d) Miss Cattermole.

5. What do Peter and Harriet discuss in the evening after the incident of the science lab?
(a) Love.
(b) The mystery.
(c) The weather.
(d) Honesty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Harriet daydreaming about in the first paragraph of The Gaudy Night?

2. When Harriet visits Saint-George in the hospital the second time, what does she help him with?

3. During her time at Oxford, Harriet discovers that people are more interested in whom, rather than herself?

4. What has Miss Newland been receiving previous to her attempted suicide?

5. How does Harriet arrive at Oxford in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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