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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dr. Mortimer believes that, from the marks, Sir Charles had tip-toed throughout the gravel. What does Holmes deduce from those facts?
(a) Sir Charles was actually running.
(b) Sir Charles was stepping carefully.
(c) A woman followed Sir Charles outside.
(d) Dr. Mortimer is right.

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

3. Before the death of Sir Charles, what had appeared to people on the moor?
(a) Fog.
(b) A carriage.
(c) The hound.
(d) A mysterious man on the moor.

4. What sets off the chain of events in the manuscript?
(a) Hugo kidnapped the daughter of a yeoman.
(b) Hugo killed the daughter of a yeoman.
(c) Hugo killed a gypsy's dog.
(d) Hugo sent a man to die in Grimpen Mire.

5. What would Dr. Mortimer like to do?
(a) Write a letter to Holmes.
(b) Play violin with Holmes.
(c) Take Holmes and Watson to dinner.
(d) Study Holmes's skull.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the Baskerville curse?

3. What is a favored study of Dr. Mortimer?

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

5. How is Holmes able to deduce the size of Dr. Mortimer's dog?

(see the answer key)

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