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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dr. Mortimer have on him that he wants Holmes to examine?
(a) A manuscript.
(b) A walking stick.
(c) A will.
(d) A bone.

2. What do Watson and Stapleton see at the bog-hole?
(a) A skeleton.
(b) A boot.
(c) A hound.
(d) A pony is slowly sinking into the mire.

3. What does Mrs. Barrymore confess?
(a) They inadvertently led Sir Charles to his death.
(b) The escaped convict is her brother.
(c) Her husband is cheating on her.
(d) She is cheating on her husband.

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

5. Why did Sir Charles return to Baskerville Hall?
(a) He made a fortune in South Africa and wished to renovate his ancestral home.
(b) He was going to have the hall destroyed.
(c) He wished to disprove rumors of the Baskerville hound.
(d) He wished to marry and start a family.

Short Answer Questions

1. While searching for Selden on the moor, what frightens both Sir Henry and Watson?

2. What is Watson's impression of Miss Stapleton?

3. What does Dr. Mortimer read out loud to Watson and Holmes?

4. What do Sir Henry and Watson do to entrap Barrymore?

5. Who does Dr. Mortimer say has a beard like the man that was following them?

(see the answer key)

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