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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. How tall is Holmes?

2. During the battle of Maiwand, where is Watson injured?

3. What instrument does Holmes play?

4. What do Holmes and Watson pick their way through on Audley Court?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the apartments like at Number 3, Lauriston Gardens?

2. How does Holmes catch the murderer?

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

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

5. What happens when Holmes tries to follow the woman who claims the ring he advertised in a lost and found ad?

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

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

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

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. 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

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?

Essay Topic 2

Arthur Charpentier is arrested for murder. Why is Charpentier arrested for murder? Why does he seem to be guilty? Why are the appearances of what happened deceiving?

Essay Topic 3

The Mormons find John and Lucy Ferrier at the point of death. Under what conditions do they offer to help John and Lucy? How do the Mormons coerce John and Lucy into joining the Mormon faith?

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