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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 asks if there is to be an opening ceremony for the lavatories?
(a) The chancellor.
(b) The porter Padgett.
(c) The Dean Miss Martin.
(d) Harriet.

2. Where had the gowns been burnt?
(a) In the chapel.
(b) In the quad.
(c) In the library.
(d) In the tower.

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

4. What happens to Shrewsbury College while the lights are out due to removed fuses?
(a) Acts of murder.
(b) A fire.
(c) A kidnapping.
(d) Acts of vandalism.

5. What does Harriet read about Shrewsbury College in a newspaper?
(a) There had been a bonfire of gowns.
(b) Students had received hate mail.
(c) A manuscript had been mutilated.
(d) The college was being shut down.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mr. Arbuthnot tells Harriet that Peter is attached to what?

2. In Chapter 4, what does a servant find under the table where Peter and Harriet were dining?

3. Where does Harriet go after the term ends in April?

4. Who proposes to Harriet at regular intervals?

5. Where does Harriet stay at her second visit to Oxford?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Miss Martin, Dean at Shrewsbury College, write a letter to Harriet in Chapter 4?

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

6. What is significant about April 1st?

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

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

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

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

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