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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Miss Baskerville say happened to strengthen her resolve to find a tenant for Baskerville Hall?
(a) Tax laws became very expensive
(b) Pipes burst
(c) The war began
(d) She planned to marry

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

3. What are the smells that greet Russell after her long bath on the morning after her return to Lew Trenchard?
(a) Lavendar and Roses
(b) Tea and crumpets
(c) Coffee and yeast bread
(d) Wet wood burning and drying wool

4. What is Holmes' reaction when Russell says she knows his true relationship to Baring-Gould?
(a) That he hadn't been willing to share that information
(b) The he'd forgotten
(c) That Baring-Gould was mistaken
(d) That he thought Baring-Gould had forgotten

5. 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?
(a) The doctor
(b) Baring-Gould
(c) The constable
(d) Mrs. Elliott

6. What did Holmes learn about the young Londoner who'd seen Lady Howard's coach?
(a) That he was a professional hiker and author
(b) That he was an attorney and a philanthropist
(c) That he was studying to be a doctor and had a limp
(d) That he wrote stories about ghostly sightings

7. How many stories of sightings of the coach does Russell hear during the day of questioning in chapter eleven?
(a) One
(b) Eight
(c) Two
(d) Twenty

8. What is the subject of the song Russell requests from the singing moor men?
(a) Lady Howard's coach
(b) Sherlock
(c) Baring-Gould
(d) The Hound of Baskerville

9. What was the original purpose of the Princetown Prison?
(a) To house orphans during World War I
(b) To house the insane around 1800
(c) To house prisoners during the Napoleonic War
(d) To house widows during the famine

10. Where does Elizabeth Chase say Tiggy would ordinarily live?
(a) In a house
(b) In a barn
(c) In a wooded area
(d) In wide open spaces

11. Who is Mycroft?
(a) Holmes' brother
(b) The constable
(c) Russell's brother
(d) Baring-Gould's son

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

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

14. 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) Half
(b) Full
(c) Quarter
(d) A sliver

15. Who brings Holmes the next telegram about Ketteridge and Schiemann?
(a) Russell
(b) Rosemary
(c) Mrs. Elliott
(d) The constable

Short Answer Questions

1. What weapon is Russell carrying when she and Holmes go onto the moor in search of Ketteridge and Schiemann?

2. What does Russell ask from the maid who is just outside the bathroom?

3. What is Baring-Gould drinking when Russell joins him downstairs the morning after her return from Ketteridge's house in chapter fifteen?

4. How does Russell get word to Holmes that she's going to be late?

5. Who joins Russell for dinner the night after Pethering's body is discovered?

(see the answer keys)

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