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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the address of the rooms that Watson and Holmes share?
(a) 221 B Baker Street.
(b) 221 South London Street.
(c) 112 A Devonshire Boulevard.
(d) 221 B Butcher Avenue.

2. 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) He hires a boy named Cartwright to bribe the postman.
(c) Holmes sends Watson to check the wastepaper.
(d) Holmes checks the wastepaper himself.

3. How does Holmes propose to find the sender of Sir Henry's object?
(a) He suggests Sir Henry reply to it.
(b) He marks the letter to be returned to the sender.
(c) He asks the postman.
(d) He suggests they check all the trashcans for the cut-up newspaper near Charing Cross.

4. 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) He recognized the ink.
(d) The splatters showed that the ink bottle was running dry, common for hotels but not for personal use.

5. How is Holmes able to deduce the size of Dr. Mortimer's dog?
(a) Holmes sees marks of measurement on the walking stick.
(b) Holmes sees the scratch marks on the bottom of the staff.
(c) Holmes looks at the size and spacing of the teeth marks on the doctor's walking stick.
(d) Holmes guesses.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Dr. Mortimer have on him that he wants Holmes to examine?

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

4. What does Dr. Mortimer call Holmes in Chapter 1?

5. What does Watson observe that Sir Henry has inherited from his ancestors?

(see the answer key)

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