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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 is Pethering's real name, according to a telegram that arrives just as Holmes and Russell are setting down to dinner?

2. What does Inspector Fyfe say the coroner found in Pethering's stomach?

3. How many stories of sightings of the coach does Russell hear during the day of questioning in chapter eleven?

4. What does Russell tell Holmes about the efforts to preserve the marks at the scene where Pethering's body was found?

5. What item of clothing does Russell leave out of the bag she packs at the beginning of chapter ten?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Russell's meeting with Miss Baskerville.

2. How does Russell find her way to Elizabeth Chase's house?

3. Describe how and why Russell's attitude toward Baring-Gould has changed by this point in the book.

4. What is the story Elizabeth Chase tells about the hedgehog?

5. 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?

6. Describe the conversation between Russell and Ketteridge about the tors.

7. What happens when Red shies soon after leaving Elizabeth Chase's house?

8. What are some of the clues Holmes and Russell find that lead them to the conclusion that Scheimann and Ketteridge are involved?

9. How does Russell get a group of men to sing the song about Lady Howard's coach?

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

Describe the use of telegrams over the course of the book. Include the information that arrives to and from Russell and Holmes in the story and the use of the technology during this time period overall.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Write a list of all the clues that help Holmes and Russell solve the mystery. Which are most important? Why?

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