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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Harriet read about Shrewsbury College in a newspaper?
(a) The college was being shut down.
(b) There had been a bonfire of gowns.
(c) A manuscript had been mutilated.
(d) Students had received hate mail.

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

3. Harriet suggests engaging investigators who disguise themselves as what?
(a) A maid service.
(b) A bank.
(c) A shipping company.
(d) A typing bureau.

4. Who asks if there is to be an opening ceremony for the lavatories?
(a) The Dean Miss Martin.
(b) The porter Padgett.
(c) Harriet.
(d) The chancellor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which old classmate of Harriet's is an archaeologist?

2. After the Gaudy Dinner, who invites Harriet for coffee?

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

4. Who proposes to Harriet at regular intervals?

5. Whom does Harriet find lying on the ground drunk in the middle of the night?

(see the answer key)

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