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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What story did Mary and her mother read a year after reading about Judith and Holofernes?
(a) Levite's concubine.
(b) Samson and the jawbone.
(c) Children killed by bears for making fun of Elisha.
(d) Jael and Sisera.

2. How did Miss Donleavy consider blackmailing the cabby Billy?
(a) Incidents in his sister's past.
(b) Indiscretions in his past.
(c) A scandal in his mother's family.
(d) A scandal in his father's family.

3. How old was Mary's brother when he learned to read?
(a) Six.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

4. What composer does Holmes mention at the end of Chapter 13 when he and Mary are discussing frenzied gaiety and weeping put to music?
(a) Bach.
(b) Beethoven.
(c) Rachmaninoff.
(d) Mozart.

5. When the watchers leave Sussex and Holmes picks through the garbage they leave behind, where does Holmes learn that all the stuff came from?
(a) London.
(b) Liverpool.
(c) Birmingham.
(d) Oxford.

6. What do the Roman numerals spell that were slashed into the seat of the wrecked cab?
(a) Death.
(b) Holmes.
(c) Russell.
(d) Moriarty.

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

8. 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) Find hotel rooms.
(b) Eat dinner.
(c) Go back to Mycroft's club.
(d) Go back to Oxford.

9. How long does it take Mary to catch up on the school work she missed while she was in Palestine?
(a) Five weeks.
(b) Four weeks.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) Three weeks.

10. 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.

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

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

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

14. What part of Holmes's disguise falls to the floor when Mary and Holmes embrace?
(a) False nose.
(b) Glass eye.
(c) Beard and eyebrow.
(d) Wig and glasses.

15. 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) Twenty five years.
(b) Fifteen years.
(c) Ten years.
(d) Five years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Mary shot after she struggles with Miss Donleavy?

2. Where did the relative live who left John Dickson an inheritance?

3. What was Mary's mother's name?

4. How many years of Holmes's life does he say he loses during the drive from Oxford to Sussex?

5. What does Mary do with Watson's trousers in Chapter 11?

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