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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Russell thinking of when she's thrown from her horse and begins to cry?
(a) Her aching back
(b) The lack of useful information
(c) The pain of her cold and fever
(d) Home

2. What does the liver mortis indicate to Russell about Pethering's body?
(a) Nothing
(b) That he couldn't have been dead more than a half hour
(c) That he didn't die in the water
(d) That he had been brutally beaten

3. Who pushes the plunger setting off the charges Ketteridge and Scheimann planted?
(a) Scheimann
(b) Russell
(c) Holmes
(d) Ketteridge

4. What does Russell come to realize about the trip home in Ketteridge's car the night after her horse was injured?
(a) That she'd narrowly escaped being killed
(b) That she'd been riding with a con artist
(c) That it was the last time she would see Ketteridge
(d) That Pethering's body was also in the car

5. How many stories of sightings of the coach does Russell hear during the day of questioning in chapter eleven?
(a) Twenty
(b) Eight
(c) Two
(d) One

6. What is the snack young Samuel stops to eat on his way home from his aunt's house?
(a) Bread and cheese
(b) Roast beef
(c) Peanut butter
(d) Scones

7. What does the telegram from New York say about the previous actions of one of the men Holmes required about?
(a) That he was a gold miner
(b) That he was headmaster of a school
(c) That he had killed his wife
(d) That he was suspected of a real estate scam

8. Which of the following are among the things Russell notes about Postbridge?
(a) There are three places to buy liquor and one place to eat
(b) There are two churches and a phone kiosk
(c) There are many houses in a rouch circle around the town's center
(d) There are no church buildings but there is a school

9. What does Baring-Gould say is the reason it's difficult to keep bees on the moor?
(a) The lengthy winter
(b) The wind
(c) The lack of flowers
(d) The constant rain

10. What does Mrs. Elliott provide for Russell to drink when she returns to the house?
(a) Hot milk
(b) Coffee
(c) Tea and whiskey
(d) Brandy

11. What does Baring-Gould say he'd dreamed of?
(a) Being caught in a storm on the moor
(b) Drowning in a flooded quarry
(c) Being a child by the seashore
(d) Being married to his childhood sweetheart

12. What is Pethering's real name, according to a telegram that arrives just as Holmes and Russell are setting down to dinner?
(a) Richard Pritchard
(b) Ricardo Pethering
(c) Peter Richards
(d) Randolph Parker

13. Where is the doctor when Russell goes looking for the Taylor family?
(a) Riding on the moor
(b) Attending a funeral
(c) Attending a birth
(d) Tending a woman with rheumatism

14. Where does Elizabeth Chase say Tiggy would ordinarily live?
(a) In a wooded area
(b) In wide open spaces
(c) In a barn
(d) In a house

15. What color are the shoes is the child wearing when she directs Russell toward Elizabeth Chase's house?
(a) She's not wearing any
(b) Black
(c) Blue
(d) Brown

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Baring-Gould say is his relationship to Holmes?

2. Where is Elizabeth Chase when Russell first sees her?

3. What kind of sandwich does Russell eat when she stops at the place where Tiggy was found?

4. What kind of lights does Holmes say the young people saw on what they believed to be Lady Howard's coach?

5. What kind of building is Wheal Betsy?

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