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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13 through 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is a clue Holmes adds to Russell's list of sightings of Lady Howard's coach and the dog?
(a) The date the couple saw the coach from Gibbett Hill
(b) The date the courting couple saw the dog
(c) The date the granny heard the dog scratching at the door
(d) The date Josiah Gorton was killed

2. What are the Dartmoor Stables?
(a) Small pens where wild horses feed and can be caught
(b) Bogs that can such a person under
(c) Large barns where horses are housed
(d) The unnamed inns that dot the moor

3. What does Russell tell Holmes about the efforts to preserve the marks at the scene where Pethering's body was found?
(a) There's nothing to preserve
(b) There's a tarp over it
(c) Russell has mapped everything
(d) The inspector has taken over the scene

4. How long have Russell and Holmes been married?
(a) Ten years
(b) Two years
(c) Nine years
(d) Three years

5. What does the young man in chapter ten tell Russell Elizabeth Chase wants to talk to her about?
(a) A boy who'd seen Lady Howard
(b) Her marriage to Holmes
(c) A hedge hog
(d) The carriage

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the original purpose of the Princetown Prison?

2. How does Russell learn that Lew House is two miles north of the station?

3. What does Russell find on her dinner tray after her bath?

4. What is the nationality of Ketteridge's cook?

5. What are Baring-Gould and Holmes doing when Russell arrives downstairs in chapter three?

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