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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Watson hear coming from the moor?
(a) The baying of a hound.
(b) Someone screaming.
(c) A mysterious, sad moan.
(d) Gunshots.

2. How does Holmes go about his search for the cut-up newspaper?
(a) Holmes checks the wastepaper himself.
(b) He hires a boy named Cartwright to bribe the postman.
(c) Holmes sends Watson to check the wastepaper.
(d) He hires a boy named Cartwright to search the wastepaper of each hotel in Charing Cross.

3. What is the deal Stapleton strikes with Sir Henry?
(a) Henry will allow Miss Stapleton to accompany him on a trip to London.
(b) Henry will go with Stapleton on a moth-catching expedition so that he might get to know his sister's suitor better.
(c) Henry will build a friendship with Miss Stapleton for three months, after which he will be allowed to start wooing her.
(d) Henry will allow Stapleton to inspect the grounds every night for signs of the hound.

4. What sets off the chain of events in the manuscript?
(a) Hugo sent a man to die in Grimpen Mire.
(b) Hugo killed a gypsy's dog.
(c) Hugo killed the daughter of a yeoman.
(d) Hugo kidnapped the daughter of a yeoman.

5. What was found near Sir Charles's body?
(a) A dog.
(b) The footprints of a giant hound.
(c) A gun.
(d) Blood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Miss Stapleton tell Watson when she first meets him on the moor?

2. Though he is described as godless, what in particular made Hugo notorious?

3. How does Watson know Barrymore is lying?

4. While searching for Selden on the moor, what frightens both Sir Henry and Watson?

5. What does Watson deduce about the candle?

(see the answer key)

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