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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 walks with Harriet back to her room after having coffee?
(a) The Dean.
(b) Miss Wilson.
(c) The Warden.
(d) Miss de Vine.

2. What is Miss Lydgate clutching as the lights go off across the Quad?
(a) A student.
(b) Her proofs.
(c) Her torch.
(d) A rolling pin.

3. How were the notes written?
(a) By typewriter.
(b) From newspaper clippings.
(c) From book clippings.
(d) By hand.

4. When telling her about the New Library vandalism, what does Harriet smell in Miss Burrow the librarian's room?
(a) Paint.
(b) Smoke.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Turpentine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of the Gaudy, what does Harriet find with the cigarette case in her gown?

2. Which student stole Miss Cattermole's fiancé?

3. Peter's nephew asks Harriet to forget about whom?

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

5. Who approaches Peter while he is reading a letter from Harriet?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How have Harriet's classmates changed from when they graduated to when she saw them again at the unveiling of the clock?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What happens while the lights are out at Shrewsbury in Chapter 9?

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