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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who tells Harriet that she wants to own a motorcycle?
(a) Annie's daughter.
(b) Miss Newland.
(c) Padgett's daughter.
(d) Miss Cattermole.

2. After the Gaudy Dinner, who invites Harriet for coffee?
(a) The Warden.
(b) Mary Stokes.
(c) Phoebe Tucker.
(d) The Dean.

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

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

5. While having coffee after the Gaudy Dinner, who questions Harriet about the type of books she writes?
(a) Miss Winters.
(b) The Dean.
(c) Miss Barton.
(d) Miss Mollison.

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

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

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

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

10. In Chapter 1, which old friend of Harriet's is ill and urges her to attend a school event?
(a) Mary Stokes.
(b) Betty Armstrong.
(c) Dorothy Collins.
(d) Vera Mollison.

11. What happens to Shrewsbury College while the lights are out due to removed fuses?
(a) Acts of vandalism.
(b) Acts of murder.
(c) A fire.
(d) A kidnapping.

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

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

14. Whom do the Fellows and Tutors originally suspect as the culprit of the letters and vandalism?
(a) A first year student.
(b) A scout.
(c) A faculty member.
(d) The porter.

15. Who proposes to Harriet at regular intervals?
(a) Saint-George Wimsey.
(b) The Dean.
(c) Lord Peter Wimsey.
(d) Lord Edward White.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who invites Harriet to dinner and a show on April 1st?

3. Who bumps into Harriet and spills her meringues?

4. Who asks if there is to be an opening ceremony for the lavatories?

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

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