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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Sir Charles return to Baskerville Hall?
(a) He was going to have the hall destroyed.
(b) He wished to disprove rumors of the Baskerville hound.
(c) He made a fortune in South Africa and wished to renovate his ancestral home.
(d) He wished to marry and start a family.

2. What newspaper does Holmes find the original newsprint from?
(a) The current London TImes.
(b) The previous day's London Times.
(c) The previous day's Devonshire Times.
(d) The current Devonshire Times.

3. What does Sir Henry plan to do to the yew bridge?
(a) Make it a memorial to Sir Charles.
(b) Open it up for the public.
(c) Install electric lights to dispel the gloom.
(d) Tear it down.

4. What health concern, exacerbated by the story of the hound, did Sir Charles possess?
(a) He had cancer.
(b) He had a heart condition.
(c) He had diabetes.
(d) He had the gout.

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

6. How was Holmes able to tell what newspaper the words came from?
(a) He found the cut-up newspaper.
(b) The color of the newsprint.
(c) The date was on one of the words.
(d) The font.

7. According to Dr. Mortimer, why did no one else notice the strange marks near the body?
(a) He was the only one there.
(b) The prints were too far away.
(c) Everyone was drunk.
(d) No one cared.

8. Though he is described as godless, what in particular made Hugo notorious?
(a) His cruel humor.
(b) His scarred face.
(c) He frequently abandoned people for dead on the moor.
(d) He beat a man to death for looking at him wrong.

9. What does Watson hear alone at night in Chapter 6?
(a) Sir Henry having a nightmare.
(b) Mice in the attic.
(c) A woman sobbing.
(d) A hound baying.

10. What does Dr. Mortimer read out loud to Watson and Holmes?
(a) The legend of the Baskerville hound.
(b) Sir Charles's last will and testament.
(c) A newspaper article.
(d) Maps of Devonshire.

11. Who is Sir Charles's heir?
(a) Charles Baskerville II.
(b) Harry Baskerville.
(c) Hugo Baskerville.
(d) Henry Baskerville.

12. How did Dr. Mortimer deduce that Sir Charles had stood at the gate for five to ten minutes?
(a) Sir Charles marked time with pebbles.
(b) Sir Charles's watch had been smashed.
(c) He watched Sir Charles the night he died.
(d) He noticed that cigar ash had dropped twice.

13. What does Holmes believe is the reason Sir Charles went out to the yew alley that night?
(a) Sir Charles was waiting for someone.
(b) Sir Charles wished to smoke his cigar outside.
(c) Sir Charles was just out on a walk.
(d) Sir Charles was waiting for the hound.

14. How did the cabman describe the bearded man?
(a) Around thirty, dark complected, and tall.
(b) Around forty, pale, and of average height.
(c) Around forty and of military bearing.
(d) Around sixty and gray.

15. What does the postmaster inadvertently reveal to Watson?
(a) The telegram was delivered to Mrs. Barrymore, not her husband.
(b) Sir Henry has a package of mail waiting for him.
(c) One of the neighbors has been reading Sir Charles's mail.
(d) Sir Charles had a mysterious package delivered to him the day before his death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does C.C.H (engraved on the stick) stand for?

2. How does Holmes spend his day after the departure of Dr. Mortimer and Watson?

3. Where does chapter one take place?

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

5. What does the first telegram to Holmes reveal?

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