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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time did Drebber leave his lodgings for the train, according to Gregson in Part 1: Chapter 6?

2. In Part 1: Chapter 1, where does Holmes guess that Watson has been?

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

4. Who does the person who comes for the ring in Part 1: Chapter 5, say the ring belongs to?

5. When someone writes on a wall, at what height would they usually write?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part 1: Chapter 6, what news does Lestrade come to share?

2. How does Watson find it to be living with Holmes?

3. Who comes to claim the ring that Holmes advertises in a lost and found ad in the paper?

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

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

6. In Part 1: Chapter 2, what rooms do Watson and Holmes inspect?

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

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

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

10. How is Watson injuried when he is in Afghanistan, and where is he taken afterwards?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lucy is married to Drebber against her will. Why is Lucy married to Drebber? What does he gain from his marriage to her? How does he act when she dies? How is greed responsible for the marriage?

Essay Topic 2

Why does Jefferson Hope believe he is justified in killing Drebber and Stangerson? Are their deaths murder or justice?

Essay Topic 3

Why are the Mormons traveling through the desert? Does experiencing persecution make the Mormons sympathetic to the causes of others? How do they treat others who do not believe as they do?

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