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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. What does Mrs. Bidwell explain to Dalgliesh?
(a) About how Dr. Lorrimer always asked her to wipe his desk twice a day.
(b) That Mrs. Bidwell is hard of hearing.
(c) About her cleaning routine.
(d) That Dr. Lorrimer did not allow Mrs. Bidwell to clean in the lab.

2. Where was Director Howarth the night before?
(a) At a woman's house for dinner.
(b) At his mother's home.
(c) At the village concert.
(d) In London.

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

4. Who is Dr. Kerrison?
(a) A forensic pathologist.
(b) A neurologist.
(c) A psychiatrist.
(d) A professor.

5. What surprises Brenda Pridmore?
(a) That Dr. Kerrison is coming out of the lab when Brenda arrives.
(b) That the lights are on in the reception area when she arrives.
(c) That Blakelock is not yet at the lab.
(d) That Mrs. Bidwell has not yet arrived at the lab.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who interrupts the meeting between Howarth and Dr. Lorrimer?

2. What is Dr. Kerrison's biggest concern as he is leaving?

3. Who is Maxim Howarth?

4. What do the detectives think about Mrs. Bidwell's version of the fight between Middlemass and Lorrimer?

5. Whose son is Massingham?

(see the answer key)

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