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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time of day does the haying crew finish working on a blistering hot day in Chapter 5?
(a) One p.m.
(b) Noon.
(c) Ten a.m.
(d) Eleven a.m.

2. What is the name of the inn that is robbed in July 1918?
(a) Bryant's Inn.
(b) The Whitebreast.
(c) The Manning.
(d) Monk's Tun.

3. What is the nationality of the couple whose daughter was kidnapped?
(a) American.
(b) French.
(c) German.
(d) British.

4. How many days does it take Holmes and Mary to travel past the roadblock leading to the Simpson's campsite?
(a) Three days.
(b) One day.
(c) Four days.
(d) Two days.

5. Who is waiting in Mary's room at the Thomas's when she returns on a wet, cold December evening in 1918?
(a) Mary's aunt.
(b) Watson.
(c) An old lady.
(d) Holmes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the club that Mycroft Holmes helped found?

2. Who was Holmes working for in 1888 when he was defeated by Irene Adler?

3. What awakens Mary at the beginning of Chapter 10?

4. When does Holmes begin devising puzzles for Mary?

5. How long after the Monk's Tun case does a case come to Mary and Holmes that puts the Monk's Tun case in perspective?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Mary and Holmes contact Mycroft when they arrive at the Diogenes Club?

2. How does Holmes respond when Mary reveals that she is a girl?

3. What does Mary learn from the morning newspaper that Mycroft brings in while she, Holmes, and Watson are having breakfast?

4. How does Mary blossom after meeting Holmes?

5. Why doesn't Holmes believe that the person behind the kidnapping will ever be caught?

6. Why is Mary disgruntled on a filthy, bitterly wet night in December of 1918?

7. What is the storage room?

8. How does Watson determine where Mary and Holmes are after Mary calls and tells him to leave his home?

9. What gift does Holmes give Mary for her eighteenth birthday?

10. Why does Holmes, rather than Mary, go back to get reinforcements after they discover that Sylvester robbed the inn?

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