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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. How does Ketteridge say he powers the lights at his home?
(a) An electric line from town
(b) Generators and batteries
(c) Wind turbines and batteries
(d) Water turbines and batteries

2. What is the name given to the bizarre shaped rocks?
(a) Rabbits
(b) Stonehenge
(c) Radonrocks
(d) Tors

3. What is the farmer doing when Holmes and Russell reach the farmhouse after being caught in the fog?
(a) Taking a nap
(b) Milking a cow
(c) Having lunch
(d) Attempting to deliver a cow

4. What period of Baring-Gould's life does his second manuscript, "Further Reminiscences," cover?
(a) The first thirty years
(b) The second thirty years
(c) The second fifty years
(d) The first fifty years

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the barman say Pethering has gone?

2. What time do Holmes and Russell arrive back at Baring-Gould's house after the evening with Ketteridge?

3. Where does Holmes drop his hat and gloves?

4. How many children does Baring-Gould say he has?

5. What are the Dartmoor Stables?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the substance of the second telegram Russell receives? What's the significance of that telegram with regard to the relationship between Russell and Holmes?

3. What are some of the things Holmes learns in the inn on the night when Russell plays the tin whistle?

4. Who is the first to call Holmes by his nickname and how did the nickname come to be commonly used on the moor?

5. What are some of the details Ketteridge reveals about his life prior to his arrival in Dartmoor?

6. 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?

7. How does Holmes describe the people of the moor?

8. How do Russell and Holmes find the shelter where they eat their lunch during the first trek onto the moor?

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

10. Who was Josiah Gorton and why is his death important to Baring-Gould?

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