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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Holmes say was Ketteridge's fate?
(a) The moor took him
(b) He was blown up by the charges
(c) He was shot
(d) He was eaten by greed

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

6. What is the name of the horse Russell takes for her trip onto the moor?
(a) Red
(b) Paint
(c) Beauty
(d) Buck

7. What does Inspector Fyfe say the coroner found in Pethering's stomach?
(a) Roast beef, corn and potatoes
(b) Gold flakes
(c) Egg and bread
(d) Nothing, indicating that he hadn't eaten recently

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

9. Who joins Russell for dinner the night after Pethering's body is discovered?
(a) No one
(b) The constable
(c) Baring-Gould
(d) Holmes

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

11. How many of the people at the inn at the beginning of chapter eleven know who Russell is?
(a) Only three or four
(b) No one
(c) Only the manager
(d) All of them

12. Which of the following was among the items found in Pethering's bag?
(a) A pair of hiking boots
(b) A textbook from the class he taught
(c) A letter from an aunt
(d) A suit

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

14. Where does Russell decide to take the injured horse?
(a) Lew Trenchard
(b) Baskerville Hall
(c) A nearby farm
(d) Elizabeth Chase's house

15. How does Russell make her way from her hotel back to the train for the return trip to the moor?
(a) By taxi
(b) By horse
(c) She walks
(d) By tram

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Wheal Betsy located?

2. What does Samuel Taylor say about the new owners of his farm?

3. In chapter eleven, Russell stays at Mary Tavy inn. What is it that a young man gives Russell?

4. What is Schiemann's interest in Baskerville Hall?

5. What does Russell say she was doing on the moor that brought her to Ketteridge's house?

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