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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 type of necklace does Mary slip on when she gets dressed in the storage room?
(a) A silver chain.
(b) A gold locket.
(c) A sapphire pendant.
(d) Pearls.

2. How old is Mary when she meets Holmes?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Sixteen.
(c) Fourteen.
(d) Thirteen.

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

4. Where is Senator Simpson getting the money for his daughter's ransom?
(a) A loan from his sister.
(b) A loan from his brother.
(c) A loan from his aunt.
(d) A loan from his father.

5. What time of day does the haying crew finish working on a blistering hot day in Chapter 5?
(a) One p.m.
(b) Noon.
(c) Ten a.m.
(d) Eleven a.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which family member is Mary named after?

2. What is the brooch set with that Holmes gives Mary for her birthday?

3. What breed are some of the Barkers' dogs?

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

5. What pile of back issues does Holmes give Mary to read while he gathers a gypsy outfit for her to wear?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the sequence of events in Jessica Simpson's kidnapping?

4. How do Mary and Holmes leave her room unobserved in Chapter 9?

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

6. What is the storage room?

7. Why does Holmes destroy the lock of Sylvester's kitchen door?

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

9. Why is Mary disgruntled on a filthy, bitterly wet night in December of 1918?

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

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