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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. When do Mrs. Hudson's letters to Mary at Oxford usually arrive?
(a) Tuesdays.
(b) Thursdays.
(c) Mondays.
(d) Wednesdays.
2. What does Mary remember Mrs. Simpson comparing the air in Wales to?
(a) Champagne.
(b) The scent of evergreens.
(c) Wildflowers.
(d) Freshly mown hay.
3. What is the month when Mary meets Holmes?
(a) July.
(b) August.
(c) April.
(d) June.
4. Who is waiting in Mary's room at the Thomas's when she returns on a wet, cold December evening in 1918?
(a) An old lady.
(b) Holmes.
(c) Mary's aunt.
(d) Watson.
5. Where is Senator Simpson getting the money for his daughter's ransom?
(a) A loan from his father.
(b) A loan from his aunt.
(c) A loan from his sister.
(d) A loan from his brother.
Short Answer Questions
1. In December of 1918, what does Holmes give Mary as an early birthday present?
2. What had the bomber who bombed Watson's home been convicted of bombing earlier?
3. When does Mary turn eighteen?
4. What color tie is Holmes wearing with a gypsy disguise?
5. Why does Mary have to stay at Oxford for a few days after the end of the term before Christmas, 1918?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Mary learn from the morning newspaper that Mycroft brings in while she, Holmes, and Watson are having breakfast?
2. Who inspires Mary and her haying crew to keep at their work?
3. What does Mary learn from Mrs. Hudson?
4. Why does the robbery of the Monk's Tun Inn, of all the cases she ever worked on, stand out in Mary's mind?
5. What does Holmes say when Mary asks if he minds if she looks into the burglary at the inn?
6. What gift does Holmes give Mary for her eighteenth birthday?
7. What is the sequence of events in Jessica Simpson's kidnapping?
8. Why is Mary disgruntled on a filthy, bitterly wet night in December of 1918?
9. What happens during the robbery of the Monk's Tun?
10. How do Mary and Holmes leave her room unobserved in Chapter 9?
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