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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 finishes the sonnet that Harriet began writing?
(a) Miss Martin.
(b) Miss Lydgate.
(c) Peter.
(d) Harriet.

2. What is missing the night that Miss Newland disappears?
(a) A boathouse key.
(b) The gate key.
(c) A book.
(d) A car.

3. Who finds Harriet after she is attacked?
(a) Saint-George.
(b) Peter.
(c) Miss Martin.
(d) Miss de Vine.

4. Who asks Mrs. Goodwin not to go?
(a) Miss Martin.
(b) Harriet.
(c) Peter.
(d) Miss Hillyard.

5. The next morning, whom does Harriet tell about the phone call?
(a) Miss Barton.
(b) Miss Hillyard.
(c) Miss de Vine.
(d) Miss Edwards.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Harriet and Miss Martin attend the morning after a big storm?

2. Why does Peter take Harriet to an isolated field?

3. Which character of her latest novel does Peter suggest Harriet alter?

4. Whom does Peter ask to try to identify the culprit?

5. What does Harriet ask Peter in the letter she sends him in Chapter 13?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Peter and Pomfret's first and second meetings.

2. What does Peter say about the mystery when Harriet shows him her notes at the river?

3. Why does Peter not tell the Warden the name of his suspect?

4. What causes the Warden to agree to seek professional help in solving the mystery?

5. How do Peter and Harriet spend their day together after he returns from York?

6. Why does Harriet go to Miss de Vine's room in Chapter 21?

7. Why is Harriet suspicious of Miss Hillyard at the end of Chapter 18?

8. What is the result of the search party for Miss Newland?

9. How does Peter know Padgett?

10. Why does Harriet accuse Miss Hillyard of smashing her chess set?

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