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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose manuscript has been mutilated in an act of vandalism?
(a) Miss Lydgate's.
(b) Miss Martin's.
(c) The Warden's.
(d) Miss Vine's.

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

3. Whom does Harriet find climbing up a wall of the college in the middle of the night?
(a) Pomfret.
(b) Miss Flaxman.
(c) Miss Millbanks.
(d) The porter.

4. What does Harriet do for a living?
(a) Writes mysteries.
(b) Writes for a newspaper.
(c) Writes science textbooks.
(d) Writes romance novels.

5. Who invites Harriet to dinner and a show on April 1st?
(a) Farringdon.
(b) Saint-George.
(c) Peter.
(d) Pomfret.

6. Harriet suggests to the Dean that what be installed on the top of the walls?
(a) Spikes.
(b) Alarms.
(c) Cameras.
(d) Barbed wire.

7. While investigating the light in the New Library, Harriet runs into a student doing what?
(a) Taking a walk.
(b) Getting milk.
(c) Finding a book.
(d) Getting coffee.

8. What is Harriet doing when the lights go out in Tudor?
(a) Researching Sheridan Le Fanu.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Talking to Miss Martin.
(d) Helping Miss Lydgate with proofs.

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

10. What does Harriet attend at the beginning of the summer term?
(a) The Magdalen Mayday ceremony.
(b) A cricket match.
(c) The opening of the New Library.
(d) A dance.

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

12. Whom was Shrewsbury College named after?
(a) Lord Shrewsbury, who first allowed women to attend Oxford.
(b) Lord Shrewsbury, who founded the college.
(c) Mary, Countess of Shrewsbury, who was meek and mild mannered.
(d) Mary, Countess of Shrewsbury, who was considered greater than her husband.

13. Who is missing from her room when the lights go out in Tudor?
(a) Miss Barton.
(b) Harriet.
(c) Miss Newland.
(d) Miss Cattermole.

14. 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.

15. Why does Mrs. Goodwin not return at the beginning of the summer term?
(a) Her husband just died.
(b) She has typhoid.
(c) Her son is teething.
(d) Her son has measles.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How were the notes written?

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