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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) The Dean.
(b) Harriet.
(c) Miss Barton.
(d) Miss Lydgate.

2. How does Harriet arrive at Oxford in Chapter 1?
(a) By plane.
(b) By bus.
(c) By car.
(d) By train.

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

4. What had Saint-George asked of Peter?
(a) A new car.
(b) A vacation.
(c) A visit.
(d) A loan.

5. What has Peter broken when he takes Harriet to dinner after her return from Oxford?
(a) His ankle.
(b) Harriet's handbag.
(c) His motorcar.
(d) Two ribs.

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

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

8. Who writes to Harriet, asking her to attend the opening of the new library at Shrewsbury College?
(a) Mary Stokes.
(b) The Warden.
(c) Phoebe Tucker.
(d) The Dean.

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

10. Which student stole Miss Cattermole's fiancé?
(a) Miss Fowler.
(b) Miss Millbanks.
(c) Miss Mollison.
(d) Miss Flaxman.

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

12. In Chapter 7, Harriet is returning from where?
(a) A dance.
(b) Oxford.
(c) The theatre.
(d) London.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where had the gowns been burnt?

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

3. What is Harriet daydreaming about in the first paragraph of The Gaudy Night?

4. At the New Library ceremony, the maid Annie tells Harriet that the vandalism began after who arrived?

5. Whom does Miss Hillyard accuse of the acts of vandalism?

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