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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4: Hanged by the Neck, Chapters 6-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Lorrimer remember about a conversation with a woman who calls earlier in the week?
(a) That she is crying as she leaves the message.
(b) That she is angry with Dr. Lorrimer.
(c) He cannot remember anything about the conversation.
(d) That she leaves a message with the numbers 1840 at the end.

2. Why is Mr. Bidwell interviewed?
(a) He witnessed a man climbing out of the bathroom window at the lab.
(b) He heard an altercation between Dr. Lorrimer and William Kerrison.
(c) He took a call and message for his wife.
(d) He may be the man standing inside the bus stop shelter.

3. What does Stella probably know?
(a) A way to void the new will of Dr. Lorrimer.
(b) The name of Dr. Lorrimer's killer.
(c) A new plot for a book that will bring the two women money.
(d) Why Dr. Lorrimer wanted to change his will.

4. What seems paradoxical about Mr. Lorrimer when he speaks of his son?
(a) He seems to both like and dislike his son.
(b) He talks of him as if he were alive and yet also dead.
(c) He seems both proud of and yet disparging of his son.
(d) He seems to both love and hate his son.

5. How do most of the staff seem to respond to Dr. Lorrimer's murder?
(a) They seem unaffected.
(b) They are horrified.
(c) They are quite distraught.
(d) They seem jubilant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Blakelock tell Howarth when he comes back downstairs?

2. What does Stella say her publisher has for her?

3. About what does Dalgliesh question Dr. Kerrison?

4. What does Dalgliesh think about on the helicopter flight to Chevisham?

5. What is lying open on the table?

(see the answer key)

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