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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Death in a White Coat, Chapters 6-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what can Director Howarth not offer accurate answers?
(a) Questions about Dr. Lorrimer's activities the night before.
(b) Whether Dr. Lorrimer was planning to quit.
(c) Whether Dr. Lorrimer and Paul Middlemass were friends outside the workspace.
(d) Whether or not Dr. Lorrimer has a girlfriend.

2. About whom does Kerrison think on the drive to the murder site?
(a) The pathologist at the main hospital.
(b) The way the mist is rising off his car meaning it will be a hot day.
(c) The senior biologist.
(d) Why he is not out fishing on such a lovely morning.

3. Who from Scotland Yard is assigned to come to Chevisham to investigate a murder?
(a) No one; it is not their jurisdiction.
(b) Massingham since Dalgliesh is out of town.
(c) Freeborn.
(d) Adam Dalgliesh and Massingham.

4. What does Dalgliesh figure about the window above the bathrooms?
(a) That a slender person could conceivably make it to the ground that way.
(b) That no one could conceivably make it to the ground that way.
(c) That the window is painted shut and inoperable.
(d) Dalgliesh does not notice the window.

5. How do Brenda's parents feel about her job?
(a) Proud.
(b) Enthusiastic.
(c) Fearful.
(d) Not happy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is all the staff required to do in the library?

2. Who is teaching Brenda?

3. Who seems emotionally immune to the process of an autopsy?

4. Who is Paul Middlemass?

5. Who witnesses the exchange between Middlemass and Lorrimer?

(see the answer key)

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