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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mr. Arbuthnot tells Harriet that Peter is attached to what?
(a) The Foreign Office.
(b) Shrewsbury College.
(c) Scotland Yard.
(d) The American government.

2. In Chapter 4, what does a servant find under the table where Peter and Harriet were dining?
(a) Hate mail.
(b) A rose.
(c) Harriet's notebook.
(d) A letter from the Dean.

3. Whose manuscript has been mutilated in an act of vandalism?
(a) Miss Lydgate's.
(b) Miss Martin's.
(c) Miss Vine's.
(d) The Warden's.

4. Miss Pyke discovers that what is missing right before she has to lecture?
(a) Her book.
(b) Her pen.
(c) Her spectacles.
(d) Her gown.

5. Who asks if there is to be an opening ceremony for the lavatories?
(a) Harriet.
(b) The chancellor.
(c) The Dean Miss Martin.
(d) The porter Padgett.

6. What is Harriet daydreaming about in the first paragraph of The Gaudy Night?
(a) Dinsdale Elementary School.
(b) Shrewsbury College.
(c) Lord Peter Wimsey.
(d) Her childhood home.

7. Who is missing from her room when the lights go out in Tudor?
(a) Miss Cattermole.
(b) Miss Barton.
(c) Miss Newland.
(d) Harriet.

8. Whom does Harriet find lying on the ground drunk in the middle of the night?
(a) Pomfret.
(b) Miss Flaxman.
(c) Miss Cattermole.
(d) Miss de Vine.

9. Harriet and the Dean discuss the absence of what in the malevolent notes?
(a) Proper names.
(b) Misspellings.
(c) English.
(d) Grammar.

10. Who hates Oxford and attends only because of her parents' wishes?
(a) Miss Briggs.
(b) Miss Cattermole.
(c) Miss Mollison.
(d) Miss Flaxman.

11. In Chapter 1, which old friend of Harriet's is ill and urges her to attend a school event?
(a) Betty Armstrong.
(b) Mary Stokes.
(c) Vera Mollison.
(d) Dorothy Collins.

12. What does Harriet attend at the beginning of the summer term?
(a) The Magdalen Mayday ceremony.
(b) A cricket match.
(c) The opening of the New Library.
(d) A dance.

13. When does Harriet notice a suspicious light on in the New Library?
(a) At 3 a.m.
(b) After breakfast.
(c) Noon.
(d) At 10 p.m.

14. How were the notes written?
(a) By typewriter.
(b) From book clippings.
(c) From newspaper clippings.
(d) By hand.

15. After being acquitted of murder, where had Harriet traveled?
(a) America.
(b) Russia.
(c) India.
(d) Europe.

Short Answer Questions

1. On the way back to her room after having coffee, what does Harriet find?

2. Where does Harriet stay at her second visit to Oxford?

3. Who writes to Harriet, asking her to attend the opening of the new library at Shrewsbury College?

4. What does Harriet do for a living?

5. After the Gaudy Dinner, who invites Harriet for coffee?

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