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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Holmes spend his day after the departure of Dr. Mortimer and Watson?
(a) Drinking and thinking.
(b) Smoking and thinking.
(c) Playing violin and thinking.
(d) Doing cocaine and thinking.

2. How does Holmes describe the walking stick?
(a) A rude gesture.
(b) A visiting card from the absent-minded.
(c) A present.
(d) The mark of a careless, untrustworthy man.

3. How does Hugo's captive escape?
(a) She bribed his servant.
(b) She crawled down the ivy-covered wall.
(c) She used the entrance to the yew alley.
(d) She sneaked out of his bedroom.

4. What is the result of Hugo's wild ride after the girl?
(a) Hugo has his throat torn out by a large hound.
(b) Hugo is murdered by the girl's father.
(c) A hound will visit Baskerville Hall every full moon to take one of the men away.
(d) Hugo marries the girl.

5. What does Dr. Mortimer call Holmes in Chapter 1?
(a) The second-best detective in Europe.
(b) The most brilliant mind of the decade.
(c) The best detective in Europe.
(d) A lucky detective.

Short Answer Questions

1. What health concern, exacerbated by the story of the hound, did Sir Charles possess?

2. What is the object left behind on which Watson tries to deduce a reconstruction of the mysterious owner?

3. What is the actual reason for Dr. Mortimer's consultation with Holmes?

4. What would Dr. Mortimer like to do?

5. Before the death of Sir Charles, what had appeared to people on the moor?

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