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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Inspector Fyfe say the coroner found in Pethering's stomach?
2. How many of the people at the inn at the beginning of chapter eleven know who Russell is?
3. What does Russell hear when she wakes in the middle of the night?
4. What does Ketteridge say was the most exciting moment of his life?
5. What is Holmes' objective with regard to Ketteridge's means of conveyance?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Inspector Fyfe say about Pethering's body?
2. What is the purpose of Ketteridge and Scheimann salting the moor with gold and what is the purpose of creating the illusion of Lady Howard's coach and the ghostly hound?
3. What does Ketteridge say about his ability to keep his cook and what is Russell's response?
4. Why does Ketteridge ask about Russell's knowledge of the sightings of the hounds and Lady Howard's coach? What does Russell respond?
5. What does Holmes learn about Pethering's true identity and how does he learn it?
6. What does Russell say about the two speeds Red has and what she believes to be her options other than accepting this?
7. What does Holmes believe to be the truth about Scheimann's disposal of Pethering's body and what is Russell's reaction?
8. Briefly describe the conversation between Russell and the man who says that Elizabeth Chase wants to see her.
9. What does Holmes learn about the true identities of Ketteridge and Scheimann and how does he learn this?
10. What is the "gold story" Russell reads about in Baring-Gould's book in his chapter about Okehampton?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Holmes is asked by his brother to check into a nearby military testing operation. What is the role of the military testing in the overall story line? Does it initially appear that military testing is related to the case of the ghostly coach and the murder? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
Russell and Holmes discover that people on the moor are very helpful in their willingness to relate any scrap of information about Lady Howard's coach and the hound. Which pieces of information are presented by people on the moor and which are pertinent to the solving of the mystery? Why are the people so anxious to tell their stories? Why is there one family that are not willing to tell their story? What does this say about the people of the moor? Is it reasonable and realistic?
Essay Topic 3
Russell plays a tin whistle at one of the inns and the story of this event obviously spreads across the moor. What does this say about Russell's character? What does it say about the people of the moor? Describe, in detail, the scene in which Russell is asked to play again.
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