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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Domenica Schofield?
(a) Director Howarth's half-sister.
(b) Director Howarth's sister-in-law.
(c) The witness on the bus.
(d) The evidence lab recorder.

2. What are Massingham and Dalgliesh doing when they hear chapel bells?
(a) Sitting in a car talking about the case.
(b) In the lab office.
(c) Talking to Inspector Doyle at the police station.
(d) In their hotel rooms near the chapel.

3. Where is Doyle parked the night of the murder of Lorrimer?
(a) At the Catholic church.
(b) At home.
(c) At the lab.
(d) At the village concert.

4. To what does Director Howarth think back?
(a) His former wife.
(b) His care of his sister.
(c) Nothing.
(d) His competition with Dr. Lorrimer.

5. Whose vomit is in the lab sink?
(a) Mrs. Bidwell.
(b) Cliff Bradley.
(c) Dr. Kerrison.
(d) Dr. Lorrimer.

6. What does Brenda's mother insist that Brenda tell the police?
(a) That the evidence bags were tampered with on the day of the murder.
(b) About overhearing an arugment between Mawson and Dr. Lorrimer.
(c) About overhearing an arugment between Foley and Dr. Lorrimer.
(d) About overhearing an arugment between Kerrison and Dr. Lorrimer.

7. Who is Alfred Goddard?
(a) A witness who was riding the bus the night of the murder.
(b) Dr. Lorrimer's solicitor.
(c) Angela Foley's father.
(d) Dr. Lorrimer's gardener.

8. What is Domenica's attitude towards the detectives?
(a) Completely hostile.
(b) Very warm and friendly.
(c) Tearful.
(d) Neither warm nor hostile.

9. What do Pridmore and Howarth discuss?
(a) Whether Pridmore will accept the inheritance from Dr. Lorrimer.
(b) Pridmore going to school in London.
(c) Pridmore working her way in to a biologist position at the lab.
(d) The comparison of the process of scientific research to that of murder detective work.

10. What have the returned lab tests on the case shown?
(a) They have not yet been returned.
(b) That Dr. Lorrimer's hairs are on the mallet.
(c) That someone's partial fingerprint is on the mallet.
(d) That horse's blood is on the mallet.

11. What do the detectives do immediately?
(a) Start resusitation upon Stella.
(b) Handcuff Domenica.
(c) Run after a figure they see in the gardens.
(d) Call 911.

12. About what does the rector's wife talk non-stop?
(a) Jesus.
(b) The fate of Dr. Lorrimer's mother.
(c) Dr. Lorrimer as a child.
(d) What the village believes happened to Dr. Lorrimer.

13. What is the most striking thing about Dr. Lorrimer's room?
(a) The large number of books.
(b) A huge chart of the milky way galaxy.
(c) The collection of toy soldiers lining shelves on the wall.
(d) The fact that there is very little in the room.

14. 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 leaves a message with the numbers 1840 at the end.
(c) He cannot remember anything about the conversation.
(d) That she is angry with Dr. Lorrimer.

15. What do the driver of the bus and conductor see?
(a) A woman with two young children standing inside the bus stop shelter.
(b) A young man standing inside the bus stop shelter.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A woman standing inside the bus stop shelter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Brenda see in the chapel?

2. What mystery does Dalgliesh solve in the chapel?

3. What do the detectives hear moaning?

4. What time does Miss Williard know Dr. Kerrison is at home the night of the murder?

5. What does Howarth tell Brenda Pridmore when she arrives at work?

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