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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Harriet daydreaming about in the first paragraph of The Gaudy Night?
(a) Dinsdale Elementary School.
(b) Lord Peter Wimsey.
(c) Shrewsbury College.
(d) Her childhood home.

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

3. In Chapter 4, what does a servant find under the table where Peter and Harriet were dining?
(a) Harriet's notebook.
(b) Hate mail.
(c) A letter from the Dean.
(d) A rose.

4. Whom do the Fellows and Tutors originally suspect as the culprit of the letters and vandalism?
(a) A scout.
(b) The porter.
(c) A first year student.
(d) A faculty member.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the last person to handle Miss Lydgate's manuscript?

2. Which maid at Shrewsbury College is a widow with two children?

3. Harriet and the Dean discuss the absence of what in the malevolent notes?

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

5. What does Harriet read about Shrewsbury College in a newspaper?

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