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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book does Watson thumb through while he waits for Holmes in Part 1: Chapter 5?
(a) Ballades et Fantaisies.
(b) Vie de Boheme.
(c) Scenes de campagne.
(d) Le Pays latin.

2. In Part 1: Chapter 1, where do Watson and other officers go safely after war breaks out?
(a) Hyderabad.
(b) Dhaka.
(c) Candahar.
(d) Bangalore.

3. What street does the person who claimed the ring ask a cabbie to take them to in Part 1: Chapter 5?
(a) Canon Alley.
(b) Appold.
(c) Houndsditch.
(d) Budge Row.

4. In Part 1: Chapter 3, how many of the apartments at Lauriston Gardens are for rent?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

5. What does Holmes say that Norman-Neruda plays well?
(a) Bach.
(b) Mozart.
(c) Haydn.
(d) Chopin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the person who comes to claim the ring in Part 1: Chapter 5?

2. In Part 1: Chapter 3, what color hair does the corpse have?

3. In Part 1: Chapter 4, how does Rance say the last tenant who lived in one of the vacant apartments in Lauriston Gardens died?

4. Where does Watson go through a course for surgeons in the army?

5. In Part 1: Chapter 4, how does Holmes know that the murderer has long fingernails?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Watson do at the beginning of Part 1: Chapter 5?

2. How does Holmes determine that the pills in Stangerson's room are poison?

3. In Part 1: Chapter 4, how does Holmes determine that the murdere had long nails and smoked a Trichinopoly cigar?

4. How does Holmes determine that Rance allowed the murderer to go free?

5. Why does Tobias Gregson write Holmes in Part 1: Chapter 3?

6. What does Lestrade see in Stangerson's room at Halliday's Private Hotel?

7. In Part 1: Chapter 3, how did Holmes deduce the occupation of the man who delivered a letter in Chapter 2?

8. When does Watson get his Doctor of Medicine, and what does he do afterwards?

9. Who does Watson see on the street, and what does Holmes say about the man before he meets him in Part 1: Chapter 2?

10. What type of place is Audley Court where Rance lives?

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