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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. Harriet suggests to the Dean that what be installed on the top of the walls?
(a) Barbed wire.
(b) Cameras.
(c) Spikes.
(d) Alarms.

2. Whom does Harriet find climbing up a wall of the college in the middle of the night?
(a) Pomfret.
(b) The porter.
(c) Miss Flaxman.
(d) Miss Millbanks.

3. Who tells Harriet about being accosted by a person who might be the poltergeist?
(a) Padgett.
(b) Pomfret.
(c) Saint-George.
(d) Miss Cattermole.

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

5. How does Harriet arrive at Oxford in Chapter 1?
(a) By bus.
(b) By plane.
(c) By car.
(d) By train.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which old classmate of Harriet's is an archaeologist?

2. Besides Jukes and his family, who is in the house when it is raided?

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

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

5. At the end of Chapter 8, where does Harriet go for a soothing influence?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Jukes in Chapter 9?

2. Describe Harriet and Peter's relationship from the time of Harriet's return from Europe to her weekend at the Gaudy.

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

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

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

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

7. What does Harriet learn from Arbuthnot about Peter?

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

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

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

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