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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of Captain Jones's son?
(a) Jack.
(b) Mickey.
(c) Brian.
(d) Tom.

3. Where does Mary keep the envelope that Holmes gives her when she visits?
(a) In her rooms.
(b) In a safe.
(c) On her person.
(d) In the Bodleian.

4. What time do Mary and Holmes get into a ship's boat and are taken ashore in Palestine?
(a) Six a.m.
(b) One a.m.
(c) Five a.m.
(d) Two a.m.

5. How old was Miss Donleavy when Holmes became her hobby?
(a) Sixteen.
(b) Twenty one.
(c) Seventeen.
(d) Eighteen.

6. How does Miss Donleavy want Holmes laboratory to be lit?
(a) Lanterns.
(b) Candles.
(c) The electrical lights.
(d) Oil lamps.

7. To what part of Holmes's house do Mary and he go when they get to the house after the drive from Oxford?
(a) A guest bedroom.
(b) Kitchen.
(c) Laboratory.
(d) Parlor.

8. What base does Mary use to crack the code of the Roman numerals left on the seat of the wrecked cab?
(a) Base eight.
(b) Base two.
(c) Base ten.
(d) Base seven.

9. Who is the fingerprint expert that Lestrade will have go over the Billy's cab looking for fingerprints?
(a) Alastair McBride.
(b) Burnell McCubbins.
(c) Ronald MacReedy.
(d) Robert McFeeley.

10. How many letters does Mary have from Mrs. Hudson when she returns to the ship after the time in Palestine?
(a) Seven.
(b) Four.
(c) Six.
(d) Five.

11. In Chapter 13, what direction does the captain of the boat that carries Holmes and Mary change to at night fall?
(a) East.
(b) West.
(c) North.
(d) South.

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

13. Where had John Dickson been working before he bombed Watson's house?
(a) His father-in-law's music business.
(b) His grandfather's grocery store.
(c) A construction business.
(d) An accounting office.

14. When Holmes and Mary discuss where to go to stay away from the mastermind behind the bombings and other attacks, how long does Holmes say it has been since he had a vacation?
(a) Five years.
(b) Fifteen years.
(c) Twenty five years.
(d) Ten years.

15. Who is the only person who sees through Mary's disguise in Palestine and knows that she was a woman?
(a) A fisherwoman.
(b) An archeologist.
(c) A Bedouin woman.
(d) A Palestinian professor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the library clerk who tells Mary at the end of Chapter 16 that the library is closing?

2. Which of Mary's tutors are absent when she returns to Oxford after being in Palestine?

3. What is floating near the pier in the river where Holmes and Mary board a boat in Chapter 12?

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

5. What is the subject of the autographed monograph that Miss Donleavy stole from a police commissioner?

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