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

2. Who bumps into Harriet and spills her meringues?
(a) Peter.
(b) Saint-George.
(c) Jukes.
(d) Mr. Pomfret.

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

4. At the end of the Gaudy, what does Harriet find with the cigarette case in her gown?
(a) A note calling her a murderess.
(b) A picture of the gallows.
(c) A note telling her to leave Shrewsbury College.
(d) A match.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Harriet daydreaming about in the first paragraph of The Gaudy Night?

2. In Chapter 7, Harriet is returning from where?

3. Who writes to Harriet, asking her to attend the opening of the new library at Shrewsbury College?

4. What is Harriet doing when the lights go out in Tudor?

5. Which maid at Shrewsbury College is a widow with two children?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Harriet find amusing about the invitation to Farringdon's party?

2. Why does Harriet tell Saint-George about the poltergeist in Chapter 10?

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

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

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

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

7. What does Harriet learn from Arbuthnot about Peter?

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

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

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

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