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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. How is Holmes disguised at the beginning of Chapter 17?
(a) As a gypsy.
(b) As an old priest.
(c) As an old woman.
(d) As a nun.

2. How many years ago did Holmes kill Professor James Moriarty?
(a) Twenty seven.
(b) Twenty eight.
(c) Twenty nine.
(d) Twenty five.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Holmes smell of when he returns from running errands after the package of clothing is delivered to the Yard?

2. What do the Roman numerals spell that were slashed into the seat of the wrecked cab?

3. How long does it take Mary to catch up on the school work she missed while she was in Palestine?

4. What part of Holmes's disguise falls to the floor when Mary and Holmes embrace?

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?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mary decipher the meaning of the Roman numerals that were left in the wrecked cab?

2. What impression of Holmes does the suicide note give that Miss Donleavy wrote for Holmes?

3. How does Mary become aware that she is being followed two weeks before the end of the term?

4. Why is Mary worried about pretending to be alienated from Holmes?

5. How does Holmes change after he returns from Palestine?

6. Describe what Mary does and says when she sees Jerusalem for the first time.

7. How does Holmes get to Oxford without anyone knowing he is not home?

8. How does Holmes act when he and Mary go to the opera at Covent Gardens?

9. How did Holmes kill Professor James Moriarty?

10. What is in a package that is delivered to the front desk of Scotland Yard in Chapter 12?

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