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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many colleges have been vandalized?
(a) Shrewsbury and three other Oxford colleges.
(b) Shrewsbury and two other women's colleges.
(c) Shrewsbury and New College.
(d) Just Shrewsbury.

2. How were the notes written?
(a) From book clippings.
(b) By typewriter.
(c) By hand.
(d) From newspaper clippings.

3. On the way back to her room after having coffee, what does Harriet find?
(a) A corpse.
(b) A piece of paper with her name on it.
(c) A piece of paper with a drawing of a woman.
(d) A gun.

4. Harriet and the Dean discuss the absence of what in the malevolent notes?
(a) English.
(b) Misspellings.
(c) Proper names.
(d) Grammar.

5. At the end of the Gaudy, what does Harriet find with the cigarette case in her gown?
(a) A note calling her a murderess.
(b) A note telling her to leave Shrewsbury College.
(c) A match.
(d) A picture of the gallows.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harriet suggests engaging investigators who disguise themselves as what?

2. What does Harriet do for a living?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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