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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary do with Watson's trousers in Chapter 11?

2. What food does Mary smell when she arrives with Holmes at his house after the drive from Oxford?

3. How long has does Holmes tell Mary that he has dealt with the criminal mind?

4. What does Mary throw at Miss Donleavy?

5. Who screams when she sees Holmes and Mary running down the hall and down the stairs at Mary's lodgings?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mary think when she sees Miss Donleavy in Holmes's laboratory?

2. Why does Mary decide to go to Palestine?

3. How did Holmes kill Professor James Moriarty?

4. How does Holmes change after he returns from Palestine?

5. What is in a package that is delivered to the front desk of Scotland Yard in Chapter 12?

6. How do Mary and Holmes create a sensation at Mary's lodgings in Chapter 17?

7. Describe what Mary does and says when she sees Jerusalem for the first time.

8. How does Holmes act when he and Mary go to the opera at Covent Gardens?

9. How does Mary decipher the meaning of the Roman numerals that were left in the wrecked cab?

10. Where were some places that Mary and Holmes sleep while they were in Palestine?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 10, Watson reveals how he arrived supposedly unnoticed at the Diogenes Club. Discuss Watson's disguise, circuitous route, and how he is discovered by the enemy.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss World War I and how it affected Mary and the people of England.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Mary's and Holmes's attitudes toward bees.

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