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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the age difference between Pomfret and Harriet?
(a) His ten years older than she is.
(b) He is ten years younger than she is.
(c) He is two years older than she is.
(d) He is two years younger than she is.

2. What has Miss Newland been receiving previous to her attempted suicide?
(a) Blackmail.
(b) Money.
(c) Poison pen letters.
(d) Telephone calls.

3. Who takes fingerprints of the lab room?
(a) Peter.
(b) Harriet.
(c) The police.
(d) Annie.

4. What does Peter's assistant find on the floor in the science lab?
(a) A hairpin.
(b) A note.
(c) A cap.
(d) A shoe.

5. Who awakens Harriet Sunday night?
(a) Peter.
(b) Carrie and Annie.
(c) Miss Hillyard.
(d) Miss Martin.

6. How do Harriet and Peter spend the afternoon after he arrives in Oxford?
(a) Arguing.
(b) Discussing the case in her room.
(c) Punting on the river.
(d) Driving his motorcar.

7. How does Saint-George demonstrate that his arm has healed?
(a) By punting on the river.
(b) By embracing Harriet.
(c) By doing a handstand.
(d) By playing cricket.

8. Who proved that a man's thesis was untrue while at Flamborough College?
(a) Miss de Vine.
(b) Peter.
(c) Harriet.
(d) Miss Hillyard.

9. As Peter is leaving for York, what does Harriet ask him to deliver to her secretary?
(a) A hat.
(b) A piece of evidence.
(c) Chapters of her manuscript.
(d) A letter.

10. What does Harriet put on before going to Miss de Vine's room?
(a) Her slippers.
(b) A coat.
(c) A holster.
(d) A dog collar.

11. Who calls Harriet to tell her that he spotted the culprit?
(a) Saint-George.
(b) Padgett.
(c) Peter.
(d) Pomfret.

12. Where does Peter ask Harriet to visit some day?
(a) His home in Rome.
(b) His birthplace in Denver.
(c) Egypt.
(d) His office in Warsaw.

13. Harriet is grabbed by what?
(a) The throat.
(b) Her hair.
(c) The arm.
(d) Her coat.

14. What does Harriet find smashed in her room?
(a) Her chess set.
(b) Her piano.
(c) Her lamp.
(d) Miss Lydgate's manuscript.

15. Who accuses Harriet of behaving inappropriately with Peter?
(a) Miss Martin.
(b) Saint-George.
(c) Miss Hillyard.
(d) The Warden.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Harriet tell the dean she feels like before Peter dines with them?

2. Whom does Peter believe will be the most likely targets of the culprit's next attack?

3. Where does Harriet expect her attack to take place?

4. What is missing the night that Miss Newland disappears?

5. Where do Harriet and Peter meet the afternoon after he comes to Oxford?

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