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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who hates Oxford and attends only because of her parents' wishes?
(a) Miss Briggs.
(b) Miss Flaxman.
(c) Miss Cattermole.
(d) Miss Mollison.

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

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

6. Where does Harriet find a robed figure hanging from the ceiling?
(a) The clock.
(b) The chapel.
(c) The library.
(d) The tower.

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

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

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

10. Whom does Harriet offer to help with proof sheets?
(a) Miss Hillyard.
(b) Miss Lydgate.
(c) Miss Barton.
(d) Miss Martin.

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

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

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides Jukes and his family, who is in the house when it is raided?

2. At the end of Chapter 8, where does Harriet go for a soothing influence?

3. What had Saint-George asked of Peter?

4. While having coffee after the Gaudy Dinner, who questions Harriet about the type of books she writes?

5. Where does Harriet go after the term ends in April?

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