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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the cat asleep in the early part of chapter nine?
(a) On the porch
(b) On Baring-Gould's armchair
(c) On the foot of Russell's bed
(d) In front of the fire

2. What does Russell wear down to breakfast?
(a) A dress to appease Baring-Gould
(b)
(c) Trousers, despite what Baring-Gould might think
(d)

3. What are Baring-Gould and Holmes doing when Russell arrives downstairs in chapter three?
(a) Drinking coffee
(b) They're outside, listening
(c) Looking at a map
(d) Eating

4. How long have Russell and Holmes been married?
(a) Two years
(b) Ten years
(c) Three years
(d) Nine years

5. Who does Russell say joins her and Holmes for tea when they return to Baring-Gould's manor?
(a) No one
(b) Baring-Gould and Mrs. Elliot
(c) Baring-Gould
(d) A young homeless family

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Russell say joins her and Holmes for tea when they return to the manor?

2. What is it that gets spilled on Russell during dinner?

3. Who is Henry Cleave waiting for when Holmes and Russell arrive at his house?

4. What does Russell find on her dinner tray after her bath?

5. What does Russell smell when she wakes after a night of drinking with the locals?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the legend of Lady Howard's coach?

2. What are some of the details Cleave offers up about Josiah Gorton and about their last conversation?

3. What is Pethering's purpose for wanting to see Baring-Gould?

4. Why does a young man who relates Johnny Trelawny's sighting of the coach say Johnny left the moor and what does Russell believe to be the real reason Johnny left?

5. What is the role of the hound in the legend of Lady Howard's coach?

6. Describe the first meeting between Holmes and Pethering?

7. What are some of the details David Sheimann tells about the true curse of the Baskervilles?

8. What does Holmes search for when he reaches the spot Baring-Gould marked as the last place Lady Howard's coach has been seen and why does he fail to find it?

9. What are some of the sounds reported by those who sighted the coach and hound, according to Baring-Gould?

10. What does Ketteridge say he does with his time and what does Russell realize this means about his fascination with Baskerville Hall?

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