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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 it was the last time she would see Ketteridge
(c) That she'd been riding with a con artist
(d) That she'd narrowly escaped being killed

2. What is Holmes' objective with regard to Ketteridge's means of conveyance?
(a) He plans to disable it
(b) He plans to find it and set a trap
(c) He sends Russell to look for it
(d) He plans to look it over so he can testify about it in court

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

4. What day are Russell and Holmes supposed to meet back at Lew House?
(a) Tuesday
(b) Wednesday
(c) Monday
(d) Thursday

5. What position does the young man named Adam hold, according to Baring-Gould?
(a) Doctor
(b) Head beekeeper
(c) Constable
(d) Groundskeeper at Lew Trenchard

6. What term does Russell use to compare Dartmoor to the Palestinian desert?
(a) A lost world
(b) An oasis
(c) A wet desert
(d) A green desert

7. 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

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

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

10. 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 studying to be a doctor and had a limp
(c) That he wrote stories about ghostly sightings
(d) That he was an attorney and a philanthropist

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

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

13. What kind of lights does Holmes say the young people saw on what they believed to be Lady Howard's coach?
(a) Only a faint glow
(b) Old-fashioned lanterns
(c) Flashlights
(d) None

14. What kind of sandwich does Russell eat when she stops at the place where Tiggy was found?
(a) Peanut butter
(b) Roast beef
(c) Chicken
(d) Cheese and pickle

15. Who does Russell say she believes Ketteridge was trying to get away from Baskerville Hall when she'd dropped in unexpectedly?
(a) Miss Baskerville
(b) Mary Tavy
(c) She doesn't know
(d) Pethering

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the people at the inn at the beginning of chapter eleven know who Russell is?

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

3. What does Miss Baskerville say happened to strengthen her resolve to find a tenant for Baskerville Hall?

4. What is Holmes' reaction when Russell says she knows his true relationship to Baring-Gould?

5. What happens to make Holmes and Russell change their minds about which night they should go onto the moor to try to catch Ketteridge and Schiemann salting the gold?

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