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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which language is the note that Harriet found on the hanging figure?

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

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

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

5. How were the notes written?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 7, why does Harriet hide a man in the chapel during the middle of the night?

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

4. What happens to Jukes in Chapter 9?

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

6. What does Harriet learn from Arbuthnot about Peter?

7. Harriet drives to Oxford to attend the opening of the new library and to investigate which incidents?

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

9. What is significant about April 1st?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the three gifts that Peter has given Harriet. Compare the first two. What is significant about the third? How does Harriet react to each one?

Essay Topic 2

By halfway through the book, Harriet knows that Miss Martin, Miss Lydgate, and Miss Edwards are not the culprits. Explain why each of these characters are known to be innocent, and the event that proves this to Harriet.

Essay Topic 3

At one point, Peter tells Harriet to write her current mystery about human beings, not just a jigsaw puzzle. Has Dorothy Sayers done that? Support your answer with at least three references to the book.

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