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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which maid at Shrewsbury College is a widow with two children?
(a) Jill.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Linda.
(d) Annie.

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

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

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

6. At the end of Chapter 8, where does Harriet go for a soothing influence?
(a) Bath.
(b) Shrewsbury Chapel.
(c) London.
(d) Christ Church.

7. Which two students on bicycles meet Mr. Pomfret and Harriet at the gate?
(a) Farringdon and Miss Flaxman.
(b) Jukes and Miss Cattermole.
(c) Farringdon and Miss Cattermole.
(d) Miss Flaxman and Miss Cattermole.

8. How does Peter's April 1st proposal come to Harriet?
(a) By telegram.
(b) By letter.
(c) In person.
(d) By phone.

9. Who telephones to get new fuses?
(a) Juke's wife.
(b) Padgett's wife.
(c) Harriet.
(d) The Dean.

10. Who was the last person to handle Miss Lydgate's manuscript?
(a) Miss Hillyard.
(b) Miss Barton.
(c) Miss Martin.
(d) Miss Lydgate.

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

12. Peter's nephew asks Harriet to forget about whom?
(a) Peter.
(b) The culprit of the Shrewsbury mysteries.
(c) The Viennese singer.
(d) Mr. Pomfret.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Harriet attend at the beginning of the summer term?

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

4. Why does Mrs. Goodwin not return at the beginning of the summer term?

5. In which language is the note that Harriet found on the hanging figure?

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