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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was Holmes able to tell what newspaper the words came from?
(a) The color of the newsprint.
(b) He found the cut-up newspaper.
(c) The date was on one of the words.
(d) The font.

2. What does the postmaster inadvertently reveal to Watson?
(a) One of the neighbors has been reading Sir Charles's mail.
(b) Sir Henry has a package of mail waiting for him.
(c) The telegram was delivered to Mrs. Barrymore, not her husband.
(d) Sir Charles had a mysterious package delivered to him the day before his death.

3. How does Holmes relax after his day of thinking?
(a) He does cocaine.
(b) He smokes his pipe.
(c) He drinks some brandy.
(d) He plays the violin.

4. Who is following Sir Henry and Dr. Mortimer when they leave Holmes and Watson's rooms?
(a) A woman dressed up as a man.
(b) A man with a possibly fake beard.
(c) A street urchin.
(d) A man dressed up as a priest.

5. What does Holmes have Watson send up to him?
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Cocaine.
(c) Brandy.
(d) His violin.

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

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

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

9. When Holmes and Watson arrive at the hotel, what does Sir Henry claim to have lost this time?
(a) An overcoat.
(b) A pipe.
(c) A black hat.
(d) A black boot.

10. How does Hugo's captive escape?
(a) She sneaked out of his bedroom.
(b) She crawled down the ivy-covered wall.
(c) She used the entrance to the yew alley.
(d) She bribed his servant.

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

12. What is Stapleton's profession?
(a) A professor.
(b) A naturalist.
(c) A barrister.
(d) A doctor.

13. What is Watson's impression of Miss Stapleton?
(a) He finds her to be very humorous.
(b) He finds her off-putting.
(c) He finds her to be very plain and sturdy.
(d) He finds her to be beautiful and out of place.

14. What is Sir Henry's opinion of Baskerville Hall?
(a) He finds it gloomy.
(b) He finds it to be too big.
(c) He finds it cheerful.
(d) He finds it to be stifling.

15. How does Holmes describe the walking stick?
(a) A visiting card from the absent-minded.
(b) The mark of a careless, untrustworthy man.
(c) A present.
(d) A rude gesture.

Short Answer Questions

1. When questioned by Sir Henry about the strange sound in the night, what lie does Barrymore tell?

2. What does Watson hear alone at night in Chapter 6?

3. Where did Sir Charles die?

4. What did Sir Henry discover was missing before he left to see Holmes with Dr. Mortimer?

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

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