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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Watson hear alone at night in Chapter 6?
(a) A hound baying.
(b) A woman sobbing.
(c) Sir Henry having a nightmare.
(d) Mice in the attic.

2. How much is Sir Henry going to inherit from Sir Charles?
(a) Over two million pounds.
(b) Several hundreds of pounds.
(c) Nearly half a million pounds.
(d) Nearly a million pounds.

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

4. What does Sir Henry plan to do to the yew bridge?
(a) Tear it down.
(b) Open it up for the public.
(c) Make it a memorial to Sir Charles.
(d) Install electric lights to dispel the gloom.

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

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

7. Why do Barrymore and his wife wish to leave Baskerville Hall?
(a) They do not care for Sir Henry.
(b) They have a better opportunity with another household.
(c) They are shaken up by the death of Sir Charles.
(d) They like Sir Henry, but do not wish to serve someone who is not English.

8. What possibility does Holmes rule out when he discovers that Henry does not have a will?
(a) Holmes decides that there is no murderer.
(b) Holmes decides that one of Henry's heirs is the culprit.
(c) Holmes realizes that Sir Henry may be the murderer.
(d) Holmes decides that one of Henry's heirs could not be the culprit.

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

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

11. What word is the only one not taken from a newspaper with Sir Henry's object?
(a) Moor.
(b) Henry.
(c) Baskerville.
(d) Hound.

12. What is the Baskerville curse?
(a) A hound will visit Baskerville Hall every full moon to take one of the men away.
(b) The Baskervilles are cursed to turn into hounds if they become like Hugo.
(c) Any descendent of the Baskervilles is to never cross the moor at night, though several have died violently.
(d) The hound will avenge the death of any Baskerville.

13. What is the object left behind on which Watson tries to deduce a reconstruction of the mysterious owner?
(a) A boot.
(b) A hat.
(c) A walking stick.
(d) A notebook.

14. What about the handwriting reveals to Holmes that the object originated at a hotel?
(a) The splatters showed that the ink bottle was running dry, common for hotels but not for personal use.
(b) The handwriting is too neat to not belong to a hotel clerk.
(c) The handwriting is messy, meaning someone uneducated wrote it.
(d) He recognized the ink.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What dangerous place on the moor has claimed the lives of several people and animals?

2. What was found near Sir Charles's body?

3. What does Dr. Mortimer read out loud to Watson and Holmes?

4. How does Holmes go about his search for the cut-up newspaper?

5. What does Dr. Mortimer call Holmes in Chapter 1?

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