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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who screams when she sees Holmes and Mary running down the hall and down the stairs at Mary's lodgings?
(a) Jane.
(b) Dianne.
(c) Alice.
(d) Ronnie.

2. What is the name of the large police constable who Mary flatters when she stands by the fire, while Holmes, Lestrade, and the fingerprint expert examine the cab?
(a) Dave Fawcett.
(b) Tom Fowler.
(c) Bob Brown.
(d) Jack Miller.

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

4. Where did Professor James Moriarty die?
(a) Victoria Falls.
(b) Mandraka Falls.
(c) Niagara Falls.
(d) Reichenbach Falls.

5. Which cab has Holmes instructed Mary to take after she has spent time in the storage room?
(a) The third cab.
(b) The fourth cab.
(c) The green cab.
(d) The yellow cab.

6. 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) Oxford Street.
(c) Regent Street.
(d) Baker Street.

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

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

9. What does Holmes smell of when he returns from running errands after the package of clothing is delivered to the Yard?
(a) Opium.
(b) Sewage.
(c) Smoke.
(d) Alcohol.

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

11. What is the name of the monograph that Holmes wrote about footprints?
(a) Forty-Seven Methods of Concealing One's Trail.
(b) Deciphering Footprints.
(c) Footprints and What They Reveal.
(d) Using Footprints to Cover a Trail.

12. Where does Mary wear a bandage after she and Holmes return to the ship after their time in Palestine?
(a) On her leg.
(b) Across one cheek.
(c) On her arm.
(d) On her forehead.

13. What does Mary do with Watson's trousers in Chapter 11?
(a) Takes them with her.
(b) Destroys them.
(c) Leaves them in the storage room.
(d) Leaves them checked.

14. What was Mary's mother's name?
(a) Judith Klein.
(b) Irene Boyle.
(c) Rebekah Stein.
(d) Mary McCarthy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has does Holmes tell Mary that he has dealt with the criminal mind?

2. What music are Mary and Holmes listening to the evening after Mary spends time at the storage room and shopping?

3. When the watchers leave Sussex and Holmes picks through the garbage they leave behind, where does Holmes learn that all the stuff came from?

4. How does Miss Donleavy want Holmes laboratory to be lit?

5. How is Holmes disguised at the beginning of Chapter 17?

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