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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color clay does Mary find in the carpet at the inn?

2. What book had Holmes written about bees?

3. What is the name of the first term in the Oxford calendar?

4. What do Mary, Holmes, and Mycroft eat at the end of Chapter 9?

5. What pile of back issues does Holmes give Mary to read while he gathers a gypsy outfit for her to wear?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the storage room?

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

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

4. What do Holmes and Mary find when they are walking a trail they think the kidnappers might have taken?

5. What happens during the robbery of the Monk's Tun?

6. Why does the robbery of the Monk's Tun Inn, of all the cases she ever worked on, stand out in Mary's mind?

7. What does Mrs. Hudson serve Mary for tea during her first visit to Holmes's residence?

8. What does Holmes say when Mary asks if he minds if she looks into the burglary at the inn?

9. Why does Mary leave the house early that April morning when she meets Holmes?

10. What does Mary learn from Mrs. Hudson?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using examples from the book, discuss the effects that the Simpson kidnapping case had on Mary, on Holmes, and on their relationship.

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 11 Holmes compares himself to a fugue. Discuss why Holmes is like a fugue.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss what Holmes means when he says that "the game's afoot" in Chapter 9.

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