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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What about the handwriting reveals to Holmes that the object originated at a hotel?
(a) The handwriting is too neat to not belong to a hotel clerk.
(b) The handwriting is messy, meaning someone uneducated wrote it.
(c) He recognized the ink.
(d) The splatters showed that the ink bottle was running dry, common for hotels but not for personal use.

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

3. Who is following Sir Henry and Dr. Mortimer when they leave Holmes and Watson's rooms?
(a) A woman dressed up as a man.
(b) A street urchin.
(c) A man with a possibly fake beard.
(d) A man dressed up as a priest.

4. To what does Stapleton seem opposed?
(a) He appears to be opposed to walking on the moor alone.
(b) He appears to be opposed to all the constables in the area.
(c) He appears to disapprove of the growing affection between his sister and Sir Henry.
(d) He appears to be opposed to Sir Henry's Americanisms.

5. How did the man found on the moor die?
(a) He sank into the Grimpen Mire.
(b) He was trampled by a Devonshire pony.
(c) He was shot.
(d) He was chased off a cliff.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Chapter 8 narrated?

2. According to Holmes and Watson's deductions, who must have sent the message of warning to Sir Henry in London?

3. How did Holmes know it was Watson in his hut?

4. Why did Holmes lie about being in London to Watson?

5. In his correspondence with Holmes, what happens the previous night that rouses Watson's suspicion?

(see the answer key)

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