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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What breed are some of the Barkers' dogs?
(a) Cocker Spaniels.
(b) Yorkshire terriers.
(c) Dalmatians.
(d) Great Danes.

2. What is Mary reading when she meets Holmes?
(a) Donatus.
(b) Juvenal.
(c) Virgil.
(d) Tertullian.

3. What is the month when Mary meets Holmes?
(a) July.
(b) June.
(c) August.
(d) April.

4. How many days does it take Holmes and Mary to travel past the roadblock leading to the Simpson's campsite?
(a) Three days.
(b) Two days.
(c) One day.
(d) Four days.

5. What is the name of the club that Mycroft Holmes helped found?
(a) Hericlitus Club.
(b) Aristophanes Club.
(c) Pyrrho Club.
(d) Diogenes Club.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language does Mary read and write?

2. Where were the Simpsons on holiday when their daughter was kidnapped?

3. What does Mary want to study when she goes to university?

4. What time of day does the haying crew finish working on a blistering hot day in Chapter 5?

5. After catching the burglar who robbed the inn, what does Mary have to eat at the inn?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the fourth town that Holmes and Mary visit when searching for Jessica, where do Holmes and Mary learn that Jessica is being held?

2. How does Holmes respond when Mary reveals that she is a girl?

3. Why does Mary leave the house early that April morning when she meets Holmes?

4. What does Mary learn from Mrs. Hudson?

5. How does Watson determine where Mary and Holmes are after Mary calls and tells him to leave his home?

6. Why isn't Holmes pleased to be called in to investigate the Simpson kidnapping case?

7. What happens during the robbery of the Monk's Tun?

8. What does Mary learn from the morning newspaper that Mycroft brings in while she, Holmes, and Watson are having breakfast?

9. In Chapter 2, why can Mary hear the sound of angry queens?

10. How does Mary determine that the blind man selling pencils is someone in disguise looking for her and for Holmes?

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