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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the relationship between the two men who guide Mary and Holmes around Palestine?
(a) Father and son.
(b) Brothers.
(c) Uncle and nephew.
(d) Cousins.

2. What color hair does Mary find in the wrecked cab?
(a) Black.
(b) Blonde.
(c) Brown.
(d) Gray.

3. How much was a man offered to deliver a package to Lestrade's office?
(a) Three guineas.
(b) Four pence.
(c) Two guineas.
(d) Six pence.

4. Why is Mary late for tea at Holmes's home when she comes in March?
(a) A farmer is herding cows across the road.
(b) A farm cart is overturned on the road.
(c) Mary's car broke down on the road.
(d) A farmer is herding sheep across the road.

5. What color clay does Mary find in the wrecked cab?
(a) Pinkish-orange.
(b) Light brown.
(c) Red.
(d) Yellow.

6. How far is Jerusalem from Acre?
(a) Seventy miles.
(b) Ten miles.
(c) Twenty miles.
(d) Eighty miles.

7. When did Mary and her mother read the story of Judith and Holofernes together?
(a) When Mary was nine.
(b) When Mary was six.
(c) When Mary was seven.
(d) When Mary was eight.

8. What music does Mary hear at a concert she attends with a young man?
(a) Verdi.
(b) Mozart.
(c) Brahms.
(d) Beethoven.

9. Who beat and colonized Palestine in the third millennium B.C.E.?
(a) The Greeks.
(b) The Akkadians.
(c) The Romans.
(d) The Turks.

10. Whose hair did Miss Donleavy leave at the crime scenes?
(a) Her mother's.
(b) Her brother's.
(c) Her own.
(d) Her father's.

11. What does Miss Donleavy say that Holmes and Mary look like when she confronts them?
(a) A pair of turkeys.
(b) A pair of donkeys.
(c) A pair of sheep.
(d) A pair of idiots.

12. Where did the mud come from that Holmes and Mary find at the scene of the wrecked cab and in the ladies' restroom in the park?
(a) Bond Street.
(b) Baker Street.
(c) Regent Street.
(d) Oxford Street.

13. What do Mary and Holmes plan to do after listening to music when they meet again after Mary has been at the storage room?
(a) Go back to Oxford.
(b) Go back to Mycroft's club.
(c) Eat dinner.
(d) Find hotel rooms.

14. With whom do Mary and Holmes drink cold, sour lemonade?
(a) A Bedouin sheikh.
(b) A lady at an embassy.
(c) A high-ranking army officer.
(d) Jews in a Zionist settlement.

15. What seems to be Ali and Mahmoud's staple diet in Palestine?
(a) Lamb.
(b) Soured milk.
(c) Rice and lentils.
(d) Goat's meat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Mary and Holmes drink while they wait for the boat to pick them up at the end of Chapter 13?

2. Who screams when she sees Holmes and Mary running down the hall and down the stairs at Mary's lodgings?

3. Where does Mary reluctantly go on a picnic in the spring at Oxford?

4. What food does Mary smell when she arrives with Holmes at his house after the drive from Oxford?

5. What story did Mary and her mother read a year after reading about Judith and Holofernes?

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