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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 through 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens that makes it difficult for Holmes to be sure they're on the exact spot where Lady Howard's coach was seen?
(a) They burned the map the previous night to start a fire
(b) The map is vague
(c) The rain distorts the X Baring-Gould made on the map
(d) The map has been destroyed by the rain

2. What does Russell hear when she wakes in the middle of the night?
(a) Men whispering
(b) A dog
(c) Nothing
(d) A child crying

3. What is the farmer doing when Holmes and Russell reach the farmhouse after being caught in the fog?
(a) Milking a cow
(b) Taking a nap
(c) Having lunch
(d) Attempting to deliver a cow

4. Where does Russell spend the afternoon near the end of chapter nine?
(a) In the churchyard
(b) In the study
(c) In her room
(d) On the moor

5. What period of Baring-Gould's life does his second manuscript, "Further Reminiscences," cover?
(a) The first fifty years
(b) The second thirty years
(c) The second fifty years
(d) The first thirty years

Short Answer Questions

1. What is at the top of Gibbett Hill?

2. What is the talent Holmes says Russell has kept hidden from him?

3. What term does Russell use to compare Dartmoor to the Palestinian desert?

4. What does Holmes say happened to Sir Henry's two sons?

5. What does Russell wear down to breakfast?

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