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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the result of Hugo's wild ride after the girl?
(a) Hugo is murdered by the girl's father.
(b) Hugo has his throat torn out by a large hound.
(c) Hugo marries the girl.
(d) A hound will visit Baskerville Hall every full moon to take one of the men away.

2. Though he is described as godless, what in particular made Hugo notorious?
(a) He frequently abandoned people for dead on the moor.
(b) He beat a man to death for looking at him wrong.
(c) His cruel humor.
(d) His scarred face.

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

4. What does Dr. Mortimer read out loud to Watson and Holmes?
(a) Maps of Devonshire.
(b) The legend of the Baskerville hound.
(c) A newspaper article.
(d) Sir Charles's last will and testament.

5. How did Dr. Mortimer deduce that Sir Charles had stood at the gate for five to ten minutes?
(a) He noticed that cigar ash had dropped twice.
(b) Sir Charles marked time with pebbles.
(c) Sir Charles's watch had been smashed.
(d) He watched Sir Charles the night he died.

Short Answer Questions

1. What health concern, exacerbated by the story of the hound, did Sir Charles possess?

2. What does Holmes have Watson send up to him?

3. According to Dr. Mortimer, why did no one else notice the strange marks near the body?

4. According to Watson, who is the owner of the stick?

5. Where did Sir Charles die?

(see the answer key)

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