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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is Miss Lydgate clutching as the lights go off across the Quad?
(a) Her torch.
(b) A student.
(c) Her proofs.
(d) A rolling pin.
2. What has Peter broken when he takes Harriet to dinner after her return from Oxford?
(a) Harriet's handbag.
(b) His ankle.
(c) His motorcar.
(d) Two ribs.
3. What kind of weather does Harriet drive through at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) Snowy.
(b) Rainy.
(c) Sunny.
(d) Hot.
4. Where does Harriet find a robed figure hanging from the ceiling?
(a) The clock.
(b) The library.
(c) The chapel.
(d) The tower.
5. Whose manuscript has been mutilated in an act of vandalism?
(a) The Warden's.
(b) Miss Martin's.
(c) Miss Vine's.
(d) Miss Lydgate's.
6. Whom does Harriet offer to help with proof sheets?
(a) Miss Lydgate.
(b) Miss Hillyard.
(c) Miss Martin.
(d) Miss Barton.
7. Who tells Harriet about being accosted by a person who might be the poltergeist?
(a) Padgett.
(b) Pomfret.
(c) Miss Cattermole.
(d) Saint-George.
8. Where had the gowns been burnt?
(a) In the tower.
(b) In the library.
(c) In the chapel.
(d) In the quad.
9. Who proposes to Harriet at regular intervals?
(a) The Dean.
(b) Saint-George Wimsey.
(c) Lord Edward White.
(d) Lord Peter Wimsey.
10. How many colleges have been vandalized?
(a) Shrewsbury and New College.
(b) Shrewsbury and two other women's colleges.
(c) Just Shrewsbury.
(d) Shrewsbury and three other Oxford colleges.
11. What event does Harriet first attend when she visits Shrewsbury College?
(a) Harvest festival.
(b) Building of the tower.
(c) Unveiling of the clock.
(d) Opening of chapel.
12. Mr. Arbuthnot tells Harriet that Peter is attached to what?
(a) Scotland Yard.
(b) The American government.
(c) The Foreign Office.
(d) Shrewsbury College.
13. Who is standing in front of the fuse box by the West Staircase?
(a) Harriet.
(b) Miss Barton.
(c) Annie.
(d) Padgett.
14. At the end of Chapter 8, where does Harriet go for a soothing influence?
(a) London.
(b) Bath.
(c) Christ Church.
(d) Shrewsbury Chapel.
15. In Chapter 4, what does a servant find under the table where Peter and Harriet were dining?
(a) Harriet's notebook.
(b) A rose.
(c) A letter from the Dean.
(d) Hate mail.
Short Answer Questions
1. After the power outage, what does the Warden publicly ask?
2. In Chapter 1, which old friend of Harriet's is ill and urges her to attend a school event?
3. When telling her about the New Library vandalism, what does Harriet smell in Miss Burrow the librarian's room?
4. Where is Saint-George the second time Harriet sees him?
5. Who was the last person to handle Miss Lydgate's manuscript?
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