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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Two: Chapter 5, The Vagrant Gypsy Life.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the month when Mary meets Holmes?
(a) July.
(b) August.
(c) April.
(d) June.

2. What pile of back issues does Holmes give Mary to read while he gathers a gypsy outfit for her to wear?
(a) The London News.
(b) The Morning Star.
(c) The Times.
(d) The Telegraph.

3. How much money did Sylvester steal?
(a) Forty guineas.
(b) Fifteen guineas.
(c) Thirty guineas.
(d) Twenty five guineas.

4. What is Mary reading when she meets Holmes?
(a) Virgil.
(b) Donatus.
(c) Juvenal.
(d) Tertullian.

5. What play does Mary act in during her first term at Oxford?
(a) Cyrano de Bergerac.
(b) Macbeth.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) Taming of the Shrew.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which one of Mrs. Barker's dogs does Mary take to try to sniff out the burglar who stole the food from the inn?

2. How old is Mary when she meets Holmes?

3. When Mary comes upon Holmes in gypsy disguise, what does he ask her to do while he is gone?

4. During what type of weather is Mrs. Barker's husband usually sick?

5. What color tie is Holmes wearing with a gypsy disguise?

(see the answer key)

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