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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Lyons credit to Sir Charles?
(a) Sir Charles helped her start her business and kept her on her feet.
(b) Sir Charles dispelled the rumors going around about her.
(c) Sir Charles single-handedly saved the church from going under.
(d) Sir Charles helped her procure her divorce.

2. Why is Watson glad to see Holmes after going to the stone hut?
(a) The case is beginning to overwhelm Watson.
(b) He was worried for Holmes's safety.
(c) He is scared to walk back to Baskerville Hall alone.
(d) He believes he is being followed.

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

4. What has excited Dr. Mortimer?
(a) He found where the convict is hiding.
(b) He found a prehistoric skull on an excavation.
(c) He found evidence of the hound.
(d) He found gold in the soil.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Holmes and Watson's deductions, who must have sent the message of warning to Sir Henry in London?

2. What does Watson hear coming from the moor?

3. What possible motive for Barrymore's strange behavior does Watson surmise?

4. Who is following Sir Henry and Dr. Mortimer when they leave Holmes and Watson's rooms?

5. What does Holmes believe is the reason Sir Charles went out to the yew alley that night?

(see the answer key)

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