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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is knocked down and bruised while the lights are out?
(a) Miss Lydgate.
(b) Miss Barton.
(c) The Dean.
(d) Harriet.

2. What is Miss Lydgate clutching as the lights go off across the Quad?
(a) Her torch.
(b) Her proofs.
(c) A rolling pin.
(d) A student.

3. Miss Pyke discovers that what is missing right before she has to lecture?
(a) Her pen.
(b) Her gown.
(c) Her book.
(d) Her spectacles.

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

5. What event does Harriet first attend when she visits Shrewsbury College?
(a) Opening of chapel.
(b) Building of the tower.
(c) Unveiling of the clock.
(d) Harvest festival.

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

7. Where does Harriet send Pomfret the morning after she meets him?
(a) To the police.
(b) To the chemist's.
(c) To the Dean's office.
(d) To his dormitory.

8. Mr. Arbuthnot tells Harriet that Peter is attached to what?
(a) The Foreign Office.
(b) Shrewsbury College.
(c) Scotland Yard.
(d) The American government.

9. Who tells Harriet about being accosted by a person who might be the poltergeist?
(a) Miss Cattermole.
(b) Padgett.
(c) Saint-George.
(d) Pomfret.

10. After being acquitted of murder, where had Harriet traveled?
(a) India.
(b) Russia.
(c) Europe.
(d) America.

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

12. To what does Saint-George invite Harriet after their first meeting?
(a) Dinner.
(b) The theatre.
(c) Lunch.
(d) A Mayday festival.

13. Who approaches Peter while he is reading a letter from Harriet?
(a) Peter's brother.
(b) Harriet.
(c) A Count.
(d) Saint-George.

14. During her time at Oxford, Harriet discovers that people are more interested in whom, rather than herself?
(a) Lord Arnold Tyndale.
(b) Lord Peter Wimsey.
(c) Mary Stokes.
(d) The characters from her books.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose manuscript has been mutilated in an act of vandalism?

3. Where does Harriet stay at her second visit to Oxford?

4. Who is missing from her room when the lights go out in Tudor?

5. When does Harriet notice a suspicious light on in the New Library?

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