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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Sir Henry and Watson do to entrap Barrymore?
(a) They have Dr. Mortimer follow Barrymore around for a day.
(b) They ask Mrs. Barrymore what her husband's habits are at night.
(c) They stay up all night until they hear him come to the window with a candle.
(d) They trick Barrymore into coming outside with them at night.

2. How does Watson know Barrymore is lying?
(a) Watson notes that Mrs. Barrymore's eyes are red and swollen.
(b) Watson hears Barrymore tell his wife he heard the hound out on the moors.
(c) Barrymore inadvertently admits he was out in the halls the night before.
(d) Dr. Mortimer tells Watson about where Barrymore was the night Sir Charles died.

3. What is Watson's impression of Miss Stapleton?
(a) He finds her off-putting.
(b) He finds her to be beautiful and out of place.
(c) He finds her to be very humorous.
(d) He finds her to be very plain and sturdy.

4. What word is the only one not taken from a newspaper with Sir Henry's object?
(a) Baskerville.
(b) Henry.
(c) Moor.
(d) Hound.

5. What does Watson hear coming from the moor?
(a) Gunshots.
(b) Someone screaming.
(c) The baying of a hound.
(d) A mysterious, sad moan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Watson and Stapleton see at the bog-hole?

2. Who is the man that brought the curse upon the Baskervilles?

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

4. What does Miss Stapleton tell Watson when she first meets him on the moor?

5. What does Stapleton reveal that shocks Watson?

(see the answer key)

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