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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. While investigating the light in the New Library, Harriet runs into a student doing what?
(a) Finding a book.
(b) Taking a walk.
(c) Getting milk.
(d) Getting coffee.

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

3. How does Peter's April 1st proposal come to Harriet?
(a) By letter.
(b) By phone.
(c) By telegram.
(d) In person.

4. Who tries to blackmail Pomfret for climbing over the college wall?
(a) Harriet.
(b) Farringdon.
(c) Jukes.
(d) The Dean.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1, which old friend of Harriet's is ill and urges her to attend a school event?

2. Where does Harriet find a robed figure hanging from the ceiling?

3. Why is Pomfret at Shrewsbury College the morning after Harriet caught him climbing the wall?

4. When telling her about the New Library vandalism, what does Harriet smell in Miss Burrow the librarian's room?

5. How were the notes written?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Harriet choose to tell the faculty about the figure hanging in the chapel?

2. What happens to Jukes in Chapter 9?

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

6. Why does the hanging figure incident clear Miss Cattermole's name?

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

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

9. What does Harriet learn from Arbuthnot about Peter?

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

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