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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Watson observe that Sir Henry has inherited from his ancestors?
(a) The temper.
(b) The intelligence.
(c) The cruelty.
(d) The godlessness.

2. What would Dr. Mortimer like to do?
(a) Write a letter to Holmes.
(b) Study Holmes's skull.
(c) Play violin with Holmes.
(d) Take Holmes and Watson to dinner.

3. What newspaper does Holmes find the original newsprint from?
(a) The current London TImes.
(b) The previous day's Devonshire Times.
(c) The current Devonshire Times.
(d) The previous day's London Times.

4. What is the result of Hugo's wild ride after the girl?
(a) Hugo is murdered by the girl's father.
(b) A hound will visit Baskerville Hall every full moon to take one of the men away.
(c) Hugo marries the girl.
(d) Hugo has his throat torn out by a large hound.

5. What is a favored study of Dr. Mortimer?
(a) Art.
(b) The study of the human hand.
(c) The study of skull formations.
(d) Theater.

6. What does Watson hear coming from the moor?
(a) Gunshots.
(b) Someone screaming.
(c) The baying of a hound.
(d) A mysterious, sad moan.

7. What does Holmes deduce about the sender of Sir Henry's object?
(a) The sender is trying to conceal his or her's education.
(b) The sender is uneducated and trying to sound educated.
(c) The sender is not English.
(d) The sender is highly disturbed.

8. What name did the bearded man who followed Sir Henry give the cabman?
(a) Dr. John Watson.
(b) Sherlock Holmes.
(c) Sir Henry Baskerville.
(d) Professor James Moriarty.

9. How is Holmes able to deduce the size of Dr. Mortimer's dog?
(a) Holmes sees the scratch marks on the bottom of the staff.
(b) Holmes guesses.
(c) Holmes looks at the size and spacing of the teeth marks on the doctor's walking stick.
(d) Holmes sees marks of measurement on the walking stick.

10. How did Dr. Mortimer deduce that Sir Charles had stood at the gate for five to ten minutes?
(a) Sir Charles's watch had been smashed.
(b) Sir Charles marked time with pebbles.
(c) He watched Sir Charles the night he died.
(d) He noticed that cigar ash had dropped twice.

11. What does Sir Henry receive the morning he meets Holmes?
(a) A letter.
(b) A telegram from Canada.
(c) A bank note.
(d) A walking stick.

12. How does Hugo's captive escape?
(a) She crawled down the ivy-covered wall.
(b) She sneaked out of his bedroom.
(c) She used the entrance to the yew alley.
(d) She bribed his servant.

13. How does Holmes go about his search for the cut-up newspaper?
(a) He hires a boy named Cartwright to search the wastepaper of each hotel in Charing Cross.
(b) Holmes checks the wastepaper himself.
(c) Holmes sends Watson to check the wastepaper.
(d) He hires a boy named Cartwright to bribe the postman.

14. Why did Sir Charles return to Baskerville Hall?
(a) He made a fortune in South Africa and wished to renovate his ancestral home.
(b) He wished to disprove rumors of the Baskerville hound.
(c) He wished to marry and start a family.
(d) He was going to have the hall destroyed.

15. What does the postmaster inadvertently reveal to Watson?
(a) Sir Henry has a package of mail waiting for him.
(b) The telegram was delivered to Mrs. Barrymore, not her husband.
(c) One of the neighbors has been reading Sir Charles's mail.
(d) Sir Charles had a mysterious package delivered to him the day before his death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sets off the chain of events in the manuscript?

2. What about the handwriting reveals to Holmes that the object originated at a hotel?

3. In lieu of persuading Sir Henry to avoid Baskerville Hall, what does Holmes suggest?

4. After meeting Sir Henry for the first time, what is Holmes's initial advice to him?

5. How does Holmes spend his time before meeting with Sir Henry in the afternoon following their first meeting?

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