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

2. What newspaper does Holmes find the original newsprint from?
(a) The current London TImes.
(b) The current Devonshire Times.
(c) The previous day's Devonshire Times.
(d) The previous day's London Times.

3. After learning that Mrs. Barrymore answered the telegram for her husband, what does Watson observe about the lady?
(a) She appears to be very frightened at the story of the hound.
(b) She appears to be very ill.
(c) She appears to be in a deep sorrow of mysterious origin.
(d) She appears to not have a care in the world.

4. What does Holmes deduce about the sender of Sir Henry's object?
(a) The sender is highly disturbed.
(b) The sender is trying to conceal his or her's education.
(c) The sender is uneducated and trying to sound educated.
(d) The sender is not English.

5. By mid-October, what lady is beginning to preoccupy Sir Henry's thoughts, according to Watson?
(a) Mrs. Barrymore.
(b) Miss Stapleton.
(c) Laura Lyons.
(d) A yeoman's daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the man that was killed on the moor?

2. What word is the only one not taken from a newspaper with Sir Henry's object?

3. Because of the convict and out of concern for the Stapletons, what did Sir Henry offer to them, which Stapleton turned down?

4. How does Holmes go about his search for the cut-up newspaper?

5. After hearing a man scream on the moor, what do Watson and Holmes hear next?

(see the answer key)

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