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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Three: Chapters 8 - 9, We Have a Case and The Game, Afoot.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long after the Monk's Tun case does a case come to Mary and Holmes that puts the Monk's Tun case in perspective?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Two months.
(c) One month.
(d) Five weeks.

2. What is the nationality of the couple whose daughter was kidnapped?
(a) German.
(b) British.
(c) American.
(d) French.

3. In Chapter 8 when Holmes makes coffee for Mary, what traces of a substance remain in the beaker that he uses?
(a) Sulphur.
(b) Arsenic.
(c) Camphor.
(d) Castor oil.

4. How much money did Sylvester steal?
(a) Forty guineas.
(b) Thirty guineas.
(c) Fifteen guineas.
(d) Twenty five guineas.

5. What play does Mary act in during her first term at Oxford?
(a) Taming of the Shrew.
(b) Cyrano de Bergerac.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) Macbeth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary remember Mrs. Simpson comparing the air in Wales to?

2. How far is the walk to Holmes's residence when Mary goes to his home for the first time?

3. Who taught Mary to throw well?

4. What color tie is Holmes wearing with a gypsy disguise?

5. In December of 1918, what does Holmes give Mary as an early birthday present?

(see the answer key)

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