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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who tries to blackmail Pomfret for climbing over the college wall?
(a) Jukes.
(b) Harriet.
(c) The Dean.
(d) Farringdon.

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

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

5. Besides Jukes and his family, who is in the house when it is raided?
(a) Harriet.
(b) Annie.
(c) Miss Martin.
(d) Pomfret.

6. Who is standing in front of the fuse box by the West Staircase?
(a) Padgett.
(b) Annie.
(c) Harriet.
(d) Miss Barton.

7. Whom does Miss Hillyard accuse of the acts of vandalism?
(a) A scout.
(b) A man.
(c) A faculty member.
(d) A student.

8. When does Harriet notice a suspicious light on in the New Library?
(a) At 3 a.m.
(b) Noon.
(c) After breakfast.
(d) At 10 p.m.

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

10. Where had the gowns been burnt?
(a) In the library.
(b) In the quad.
(c) In the tower.
(d) In the chapel.

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

12. Why does Harriet ask Annie about Jukes?
(a) Annie's children stay with Jukes.
(b) Annie used to work for Jukes.
(c) Annie saw Jukes prowling around at night.
(d) Annie is Juke's sister.

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

14. Which old classmate of Harriet's is an archaeologist?
(a) Vera Mollison.
(b) Mary Stokes.
(c) Dorothy Collins.
(d) Phoebe Tucker.

15. What do the police find when they raid Juke's home in Chapter 9?
(a) Poison pen letters.
(b) Miss Lydgate's manuscript.
(c) Weapons.
(d) Items stolen from students.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the last person to handle Miss Lydgate's manuscript?

2. How were the notes written?

3. What is stuck into the figure that Harriet finds hanging from the ceiling?

4. While investigating the light in the New Library, Harriet runs into a student doing what?

5. Who bumps into Harriet and spills her meringues?

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