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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Elizabeth Chase when Russell first sees her?
(a) In the doorway of her house
(b) In a small shed
(c) In the garden
(d) In the barn

2. What is Russell thinking of when she's thrown from her horse and begins to cry?
(a) Home
(b) Her aching back
(c) The pain of her cold and fever
(d) The lack of useful information

3. Who drives Russell back to Lew Trenchard?
(a) Baring-Gould's driver
(b) Ketteridge's hired driver
(c) Schiemann
(d) Ketteridge

4. What does Ketteridge say was the most exciting moment of his life?
(a) When he bought Baskerville Hall
(b) When he met Russell
(c) When he met Holmes
(d) When he discovered gold

5. What is used to sweeten the tea served at Elizabeth Chases's house?
(a) Sugar
(b) Nothing
(c) Treacle
(d) Honey

6. What time is it when Russell arrives back at Lew Trenchard?
(a) Just after midnight
(b) Almost midnight
(c) Not yet ten
(d) Just after one in the morning

7. What phase is the moon in when Russell looks at the moor for the first time without rain, near the end of chapter ten?
(a) Quarter
(b) A sliver
(c) Full
(d) Half

8. What is Pethering's real name, according to a telegram that arrives just as Holmes and Russell are setting down to dinner?
(a) Ricardo Pethering
(b) Peter Richards
(c) Richard Pritchard
(d) Randolph Parker

9. What is the subject of the first song the singing moor men perform?
(a) An old woman who is dying
(b) A young couple in love
(c) A loose young woman
(d) A lazy young man

10. Where is the doctor when Russell goes looking for the Taylor family?
(a) Riding on the moor
(b) Attending a birth
(c) Tending a woman with rheumatism
(d) Attending a funeral

11. What does Baring-Gould say he's reading when Russell joins him the morning after her return from Ketteridge's house?
(a) The Bible
(b) Nothing
(c) A draft of his memoirs
(d) A history of the moor

12. Who pushes the plunger setting off the charges Ketteridge and Scheimann planted?
(a) Holmes
(b) Russell
(c) Scheimann
(d) Ketteridge

13. What does Ketteridge use to tie up Holmes?
(a) Heavy rope
(b) Twine
(c) Wire
(d) Blasting cord

14. What does Russell come to realize about the trip home in Ketteridge's car the night after her horse was injured?
(a) That she'd been riding with a con artist
(b) That she'd narrowly escaped being killed
(c) That Pethering's body was also in the car
(d) That it was the last time she would see Ketteridge

15. What does Samuel Taylor say about the new owners of his farm?
(a) That he hopes they paid dearly for it
(b) That he hopes they'll sell it to him
(c) That he hopes they die
(d) That he hopes they enjoy it

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Baring-Gould when he died?

2. When the young family arrives at Lew Trenchard looking for a place to stay, who is it that offers them a house for a week?

3. Where is Wheal Betsy located?

4. What does the telegram from New York say about the previous actions of one of the men Holmes required about?

5. What does Baring-Gould say is the reason it's difficult to keep bees on the moor?

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