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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Russell get word to Holmes that she's going to be late?
(a) She telephones
(b) Sends a boy with a message
(c) She doesn't
(d) She depends on word of mouth

3. What does Russell have to drink with the meal she has at Postbridge?
(a) Red wine
(b) Beer
(c) Milk
(d) Ale

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

5. What is the idiosyncrasy Russell discovers about the horse she's riding?
(a) He's eager to run
(b) He shies
(c) He goes left when she urges him to go right
(d) He hates birds

6. What is the toast Ketteridge proposes when Russell joins him?
(a) To gold
(b) To wealth
(c) To change
(d) To friends

7. What is Schiemann's interest in Baskerville Hall?
(a) His cousins owned it
(b) His father was cheated out of inheriting it
(c) He'd read about it
(d) He had no interest in it

8. What is the snack young Samuel stops to eat on his way home from his aunt's house?
(a) Scones
(b) Roast beef
(c) Peanut butter
(d) Bread and cheese

9. What does the telegram from New York say about the previous actions of one of the men Holmes required about?
(a) That he was headmaster of a school
(b) That he had killed his wife
(c) That he was a gold miner
(d) That he was suspected of a real estate scam

10. 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 narrowly escaped being killed
(b) That she'd been riding with a con artist
(c) That it was the last time she would see Ketteridge
(d) That Pethering's body was also in the car

11. What does Ketteridge say he'd like to hire Holmes to do?
(a) Look into the case of the hound
(b) Write a story about the hound
(c) Look into the strange death of Josiah Gorton
(d) Look into the possibility of gold in the moor

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

13. What does Baring-Gould say is his relationship to Holmes?
(a) He is Holmes' uncle
(b) He is Holmes' grandfather
(c) He is Holmes' second cousin
(d) He is Holmes' godfather

14. What is the nickname given to Russell by the people of hte moor?
(a) Zherlock Mary
(b) Znoop Russell
(c) Znoop Mary
(d) Mrs. Znoop Zherlock

15. Baring-Gould tells Russell about a case of fraud in which the moor was "salted" with what metal?
(a) Silver
(b) Iron
(c) Tin
(d) Copper

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Baring-Gould's mother's name?

2. Where is the doctor when Russell goes looking for the Taylor family?

3. What does Ketteridge say prompted that toast?

4. What does Baring-Gould say he'd dreamed of?

5. Where is Wheal Betsy located?

(see the answer keys)

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