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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. After Harriet notices the light on in the New Library, whose room does she find empty?
(a) Miss Barton's.
(b) Miss Martin's.
(c) Miss de Vine's.
(d) Miss Burrow's.

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

6. During her time at Oxford, Harriet discovers that people are more interested in whom, rather than herself?
(a) The characters from her books.
(b) Lord Arnold Tyndale.
(c) Mary Stokes.
(d) Lord Peter Wimsey.

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

8. Catherine Freemantle, a former classmate of Harriet's, married a farmer and now lives where?
(a) In Ireland.
(b) In Yorkshire.
(c) On the Scottish border.
(d) On the Welsh border.

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

10. Who invites Harriet to dinner and a show on April 1st?
(a) Peter.
(b) Saint-George.
(c) Pomfret.
(d) Farringdon.

11. Where does Harriet send Pomfret the morning after she meets him?
(a) To the police.
(b) To the Dean's office.
(c) To his dormitory.
(d) To the chemist's.

12. In which language is the note that Harriet found on the hanging figure?
(a) Latin.
(b) Chinese.
(c) English.
(d) Arabic.

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

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

15. At the end of Chapter 8, where does Harriet go for a soothing influence?
(a) Bath.
(b) Shrewsbury Chapel.
(c) London.
(d) Christ Church.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who proposes to Harriet at regular intervals?

2. Whom was Shrewsbury College named after?

3. What kind of weather does Harriet drive through at the beginning of Chapter 5?

4. Peter's nephew asks Harriet to forget about whom?

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

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