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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. At the New Library ceremony, the maid Annie tells Harriet that the vandalism began after who arrived?
(a) Miss de Vine.
(b) Miss Martin.
(c) Miss Hillyard.
(d) Miss Barton.

2. Who is knocked down and bruised while the lights are out?
(a) Harriet.
(b) Miss Lydgate.
(c) Miss Barton.
(d) The Dean.

3. Which student stole Miss Cattermole's fiancé?
(a) Miss Flaxman.
(b) Miss Fowler.
(c) Miss Mollison.
(d) Miss Millbanks.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what had Harriet been accused by the police?

2. Who is standing in front of the fuse box by the West Staircase?

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

4. Why does Mrs. Goodwin not return at the beginning of the summer term?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what does Harriet talk about while having coffee with the Dean and her other classmates?

2. Why is Sunday the best part of a Gaudy?

3. How does Harriet find the disaster in the New Library the night before its opening?

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

5. In Chapter 1, what are Harriet's emotions as she returns to Shrewsbury College?

6. Does Harriet learn anything about the poltergeist from the night when the fuses were removed?

7. Why does Harriet find it difficult to write to Peter after visiting Saint-George in the hospital?

8. Harriet drives to Oxford to attend the opening of the new library and to investigate which incidents?

9. What does Harriet find amusing about the invitation to Farringdon's party?

10. How does Harriet handle the vandalism of the New Library?

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