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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 10, The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Describe Holmes' client in "The Five Orange Pips."
(a) A pretty young woman.
(b) A large old woman.
(c) An blind man in his sixties.
(d) A young man in his twenties.

2. What does Holmes threaten Mr. Windbanks with?
(a) The authorities.
(b) A riding whip.
(c) A pistol.
(d) A knife.

3. What does Helen hear that makes her nervous in "The Adventure of the Speckled Band?"
(a) Animal noises.
(b) A whistling and a metal clamp.
(c) A scream and a siren.
(d) Scraping on the wall.

4. How does Miss Sutherland support herself?
(a) Her allowance from her stepfather.
(b) She works as a prostitute.
(c) She is married and her husband supports her.
(d) Her inheritance and a job as a typist.

5. Why does the character in "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" return from India?
(a) He is bored with the country.
(b) He misses his family back home in England.
(c) He is forced to after beating his butler to death.
(d) He is forced to after not paying off a gambling debt.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor," what does Inspector Lestrade find in the river?

2. Where does the Red-Headed League place an advertisement for employment?

3. In "The Red-Headed League," besides Peter Jones, who meets with Watson and Holmes?

4. In "The Five Orange Pips," how are the first and second letter similar?

5. How do Holmes and Watson travel to the case in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery"?

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