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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After Harriet notices the light on in the New Library, whose room does she find empty?
(a) Miss Martin's.
(b) Miss Burrow's.
(c) Miss Barton's.
(d) Miss de Vine's.

3. Which student stole Miss Cattermole's fiancé?
(a) Miss Fowler.
(b) Miss Millbanks.
(c) Miss Mollison.
(d) Miss Flaxman.

4. Who is knocked down and bruised while the lights are out?
(a) Miss Lydgate.
(b) Miss Barton.
(c) The Dean.
(d) Harriet.

5. During her time at Oxford, Harriet discovers that people are more interested in whom, rather than herself?
(a) Lord Peter Wimsey.
(b) Mary Stokes.
(c) The characters from her books.
(d) Lord Arnold Tyndale.

6. Which old classmate of Harriet's is an archaeologist?
(a) Phoebe Tucker.
(b) Dorothy Collins.
(c) Vera Mollison.
(d) Mary Stokes.

7. On the way back to her room after having coffee, what does Harriet find?
(a) A corpse.
(b) A piece of paper with her name on it.
(c) A gun.
(d) A piece of paper with a drawing of a woman.

8. Who telephones to get new fuses?
(a) Padgett's wife.
(b) Harriet.
(c) Juke's wife.
(d) The Dean.

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

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

11. To what does Saint-George invite Harriet after their first meeting?
(a) The theatre.
(b) A Mayday festival.
(c) Dinner.
(d) Lunch.

12. Who approaches Peter while he is reading a letter from Harriet?
(a) Peter's brother.
(b) Saint-George.
(c) Harriet.
(d) A Count.

13. At the New Library ceremony, the maid Annie tells Harriet that the vandalism began after who arrived?
(a) Miss de Vine.
(b) Miss Barton.
(c) Miss Martin.
(d) Miss Hillyard.

14. When telling her about the New Library vandalism, what does Harriet smell in Miss Burrow the librarian's room?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Paint.
(c) Turpentine.
(d) Smoke.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, Harriet is returning from where?

2. What is Harriet daydreaming about in the first paragraph of The Gaudy Night?

3. Whom was Shrewsbury College named after?

4. While investigating the light in the New Library, Harriet runs into a student doing what?

5. At the end of Chapter 8, where does Harriet go for a soothing influence?

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