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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Holmes spend his day after the departure of Dr. Mortimer and Watson?
(a) Smoking and thinking.
(b) Playing violin and thinking.
(c) Doing cocaine and thinking.
(d) Drinking and thinking.

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

3. When Dr. Mortimer arrives at the rooms, what is revealed that annoys Holmes?
(a) Holmes does not appreciate the doctor just stopping in unannounced.
(b) Holmes find the doctor to be rude.
(c) Holmes's deductions are mostly, but not completely accurate.
(d) Holmes's deduction are completely wrong.

4. What was found near Sir Charles's body?
(a) The footprints of a giant hound.
(b) A gun.
(c) Blood.
(d) A dog.

5. What newspaper does Holmes find the original newsprint from?
(a) The previous day's London Times.
(b) The previous day's Devonshire Times.
(c) The current Devonshire Times.
(d) The current London TImes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Holmes relax after his day of thinking?

2. Though he is described as godless, what in particular made Hugo notorious?

3. How does Holmes describe the walking stick?

4. After questioning Dr. Mortimer about the discovery of Sir Charles's body, what is Holmes annoyed about?

5. Before the death of Sir Charles, what had appeared to people on the moor?

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