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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who walks with Harriet back to her room after having coffee?
(a) The Dean.
(b) Miss de Vine.
(c) The Warden.
(d) Miss Wilson.

2. In Chapter 6, Harriet wakes herself up calling for whom?
(a) The poltergeist.
(b) Padgett.
(c) Annie.
(d) Peter.

3. What is stuck into the figure that Harriet finds hanging from the ceiling?
(a) A pin.
(b) An arrow.
(c) A spear.
(d) A bread-knife.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After Harriet notices the light on in the New Library, whose room does she find empty?

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

3. Why is Pomfret at Shrewsbury College the morning after Harriet caught him climbing the wall?

4. What does Harriet do for a living?

5. At the end of the Gaudy, what does Harriet find with the cigarette case in her gown?

(see the answer key)

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