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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. Which family member is Mary named after?
(a) Her father's sister.
(b) Her maternal grandmother.
(c) Her paternal grandmother.
(d) Her mother's sister.

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

3. Who is waiting in Mary's room at the Thomas's when she returns on a wet, cold December evening in 1918?
(a) Holmes.
(b) An old lady.
(c) Mary's aunt.
(d) Watson.

4. In Chapter 10, who is watching the Diogenes Club looking for Mary and Holmes?
(a) A woman selling flowers.
(b) A beggar.
(c) A newspaper boy.
(d) A blind man selling pencils.

5. What color are Mary's eyes?
(a) Blue.
(b) Gray.
(c) Brown.
(d) Green.

Short Answer Questions

1. When had the bomber who bombed Watson's home been convicted of another bombing?

2. Who does Patrick say is robbed in July 1918?

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

4. During what type of weather is Mrs. Barker's husband usually sick?

5. What does Mary step on to get on the roof of the privy at the house where the kidnappers are staying?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Mary blossom after meeting Holmes?

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

4. What is the storage room?

5. Why doesn't Holmes believe that the person behind the kidnapping will ever be caught?

6. Why does the robbery of the Monk's Tun Inn, of all the cases she ever worked on, stand out in Mary's mind?

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

8. What does Mary learn from Mrs. Hudson?

9. What do Holmes and Mary find when they are walking a trail they think the kidnappers might have taken?

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

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