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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Stapleton's profession?
(a) A professor.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A naturalist.
(d) A barrister.

2. What did Sir Henry discover was missing before he left to see Holmes with Dr. Mortimer?
(a) An old boot.
(b) A brown hat.
(c) A brown boot.
(d) An old suitcoat.

3. What does the postmaster inadvertently reveal to Watson?
(a) Sir Henry has a package of mail waiting for him.
(b) Sir Charles had a mysterious package delivered to him the day before his death.
(c) One of the neighbors has been reading Sir Charles's mail.
(d) The telegram was delivered to Mrs. Barrymore, not her husband.

4. How did the cabman describe the bearded man?
(a) Around thirty, dark complected, and tall.
(b) Around forty and of military bearing.
(c) Around sixty and gray.
(d) Around forty, pale, and of average height.

5. 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 splatters showed that the ink bottle was running dry, common for hotels but not for personal use.
(c) He recognized the ink.
(d) The handwriting is messy, meaning someone uneducated wrote it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What possibility does Holmes rule out when he discovers that Henry does not have a will?

2. What sets off the chain of events in the manuscript?

3. What is the Baskerville curse?

4. What dangerous place on the moor has claimed the lives of several people and animals?

5. What does the first telegram to Holmes reveal?

(see the answer key)

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