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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. How many colleges have been vandalized?
(a) Just Shrewsbury.
(b) Shrewsbury and two other women's colleges.
(c) Shrewsbury and New College.
(d) Shrewsbury and three other Oxford colleges.

2. Catherine Freemantle, a former classmate of Harriet's, married a farmer and now lives where?
(a) On the Welsh border.
(b) In Yorkshire.
(c) In Ireland.
(d) On the Scottish border.

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

4. What event does Harriet first attend when she visits Shrewsbury College?
(a) Building of the tower.
(b) Harvest festival.
(c) Opening of chapel.
(d) Unveiling of the clock.

5. What is stuck into the figure that Harriet finds hanging from the ceiling?
(a) A spear.
(b) An arrow.
(c) A pin.
(d) A bread-knife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Several of Harriet's classmates ask her about which Lord?

2. Miss Pyke discovers that what is missing right before she has to lecture?

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

4. Whom does Harriet find climbing up a wall of the college in the middle of the night?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens to Jukes in Chapter 9?

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

5. In Chapter 3, which two subjects had Harriet hoped not to think about at Oxford? Does she?

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

7. What does Harriet learn from Arbuthnot about Peter?

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

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

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

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