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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Harriet ask Annie about Jukes?
(a) Annie saw Jukes prowling around at night.
(b) Annie used to work for Jukes.
(c) Annie's children stay with Jukes.
(d) Annie is Juke's sister.

3. Whom was Shrewsbury College named after?
(a) Lord Shrewsbury, who founded the college.
(b) Lord Shrewsbury, who first allowed women to attend Oxford.
(c) Mary, Countess of Shrewsbury, who was considered greater than her husband.
(d) Mary, Countess of Shrewsbury, who was meek and mild mannered.

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

5. Who writes to Harriet, asking her to attend the opening of the new library at Shrewsbury College?
(a) The Dean.
(b) Mary Stokes.
(c) The Warden.
(d) Phoebe Tucker.

Short Answer Questions

1. During her time at Oxford, Harriet discovers that people are more interested in whom, rather than herself?

2. On the way back to her room after having coffee, what does Harriet find?

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

4. While investigating the light in the New Library, Harriet runs into a student doing what?

5. Whom does Harriet find lying on the ground drunk in the middle of the night?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 7, why does Harriet hide a man in the chapel during the middle of the night?

2. In the meeting that takes place during Chapter 5, why is it concluded that the culprit must be a resident at Oxford?

3. Why is Saint-George unable to keep his lunch appointment with Harriet?

4. How do Harriet's classmates and former professors receive her?

5. In Chapter 5, what do the Dean and Harriet conclude from the absence of spelling mistakes in the poison pen letters?

6. Why does Miss Martin, Dean at Shrewsbury College, write a letter to Harriet in Chapter 4?

7. What is significant about April 1st?

8. After the vandalism of the New Library, what do the Warden and Harriet decide about the investigation?

9. How does Saint-George embarrass himself in front of Harriet?

10. Why does Harriet tell Saint-George about the poltergeist in Chapter 10?

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