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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) Miss Lydgate.
(c) Miss Barton.
(d) Harriet.

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

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

4. Where is Saint-George the second time Harriet sees him?
(a) The hospital.
(b) On the river.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) His room.

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

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

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

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

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

10. On the way back to her room after having coffee, what does Harriet find?
(a) A piece of paper with her name on it.
(b) A corpse.
(c) A gun.
(d) A piece of paper with a drawing of a woman.

11. In Chapter 4, what does a servant find under the table where Peter and Harriet were dining?
(a) A rose.
(b) Hate mail.
(c) A letter from the Dean.
(d) Harriet's notebook.

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

13. Who approaches Peter while he is reading a letter from Harriet?
(a) A Count.
(b) Harriet.
(c) Saint-George.
(d) Peter's brother.

14. To what does Saint-George invite Harriet after their first meeting?
(a) Lunch.
(b) Dinner.
(c) A Mayday festival.
(d) The theatre.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Harriet about being accosted by a person who might be the poltergeist?

2. What is Harriet doing when the lights go out in Tudor?

3. In Chapter 6, Harriet wakes herself up calling for whom?

4. Harriet and the Dean discuss the absence of what in the malevolent notes?

5. Where does Harriet send Pomfret the morning after she meets him?

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