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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Helen think Julia's last words referred to?
(a) Something she had eaten.
(b) A specter.
(c) A gypsie's garb.
(d) Dr. Roylott.

2. What does Holmes say he knew he would find in the house before he ever got to it?
(a) Locks on the windows.
(b) A hole in the wall.
(c) A ventilator shaft.
(d) A fake bell-pull.

3. What does Watson say the house is shaped like?
(a) A crab.
(b) A boulder.
(c) A spider.
(d) A prison.

4. What did the young lady say caused her step-father's violent anger?
(a) His greed and laziness.
(b) Family genes.
(c) Paranoid tendencies.
(d) A viscious past.

5. What does Holmes think caused the metal clanging sound?
(a) The bars in the chimney.
(b) Some crawling in the air ducts.
(c) A mechanical device.
(d) The shuttered window.

Short Answer Questions

1. What wakes the narrator up at the beginning of this book?

2. What two items does Holmes lay out on the bed as they wait in Julia's room?

3. What was Julia wearing when she died?

4. What is the name of the Inn Holmes and Watson will stay in that night?

5. How did Holmes know the visitor took a dog carriage early that morning?

(see the answer key)

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