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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did Captain Jones spend January?
(a) France.
(b) Spanish.
(c) Portugal.
(d) Germany.

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

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

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

6. When was the toggle detonator used by John Dickson manufactured?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1903.

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

8. How much weight has Mary lost since January?
(a) Six pounds.
(b) Four pounds.
(c) Five pounds.
(d) Seven pounds.

9. How many cars are used to follow Mary when she drives to Sussex?
(a) Six.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

10. What is the subject of the autographed monograph that Miss Donleavy stole from a police commissioner?
(a) Blood types.
(b) Footprints.
(c) Bicycle tires.
(d) Fingerprints.

11. When was the last time that the ladies' restroom in the park had been cleaned?
(a) About five p.m.
(b) Eight a.m.
(c) About eight p.m.
(d) Eleven a.m.

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

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

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

15. Which of Mary's tutors are absent when she returns to Oxford after being in Palestine?
(a) History and Classics tutors.
(b) Maths and Greek tutors.
(c) Science and English tutors.
(d) Latin and Music tutors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the relationship between the two men who guide Mary and Holmes around Palestine?

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

3. How long does Holmes want himself and Mary to disappear to try to get the female mastermind off their trail?

4. What time do Mary and Holmes get into a ship's boat and are taken ashore in Palestine?

5. Who beat and colonized Palestine in the third millennium B.C.E.?

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