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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Elizabeth Chase say Tiggy would ordinarily live?
(a) In a house
(b) In a barn
(c) In wide open spaces
(d) In a wooded area

2. What does Baring-Gould say he'd dreamed of?
(a) Being married to his childhood sweetheart
(b) Being a child by the seashore
(c) Being caught in a storm on the moor
(d) Drowning in a flooded quarry

3. What is the injury the horse sustains on the way back to Lew Trenchard?
(a) A bleeding leg
(b) A broken leg
(c) A pulled muscle
(d) A scrap to his side

4. What does Ketteridge use to tie up Holmes?
(a) Heavy rope
(b) Wire
(c) Blasting cord
(d) Twine

5. What kind of sandwich does Russell eat when she stops at the place where Tiggy was found?
(a) Cheese and pickle
(b) Chicken
(c) Roast beef
(d) Peanut butter

6. What time is it when Russell arrives back at Lew Trenchard?
(a) Not yet ten
(b) Almost midnight
(c) Just after one in the morning
(d) Just after midnight

7. What does Holmes say was Ketteridge's fate?
(a) The moor took him
(b) He was shot
(c) He was blown up by the charges
(d) He was eaten by greed

8. What color are the shoes is the child wearing when she directs Russell toward Elizabeth Chase's house?
(a) She's not wearing any
(b) Brown
(c) Blue
(d) Black

9. What is the nationality of Ketteridge's cook?
(a) Italian
(b) Amiercan
(c) French
(d) English

10. Who drives on the day Holmes and Russell take Baring-Gould for one last trip onto the moor?
(a) Russell
(b) There's no indication who drove
(c) Holmes
(d) Baring-Gould

11. What is the name of the horse Russell takes for her trip onto the moor?
(a) Beauty
(b) Paint
(c) Buck
(d) Red

12. What does the young man in chapter ten tell Russell Elizabeth Chase wants to talk to her about?
(a) Her marriage to Holmes
(b) A hedge hog
(c) A boy who'd seen Lady Howard
(d) The carriage

13. What did Holmes learn about the young Londoner who'd seen Lady Howard's coach?
(a) That he was a professional hiker and author
(b) That he was an attorney and a philanthropist
(c) That he was studying to be a doctor and had a limp
(d) That he wrote stories about ghostly sightings

14. What is Russell thinking of when she's thrown from her horse and begins to cry?
(a) The lack of useful information
(b) Her aching back
(c) The pain of her cold and fever
(d) Home

15. What does Inspector Fyfe say the coroner found in Pethering's stomach?
(a) Gold flakes
(b) Egg and bread
(c) Nothing, indicating that he hadn't eaten recently
(d) Roast beef, corn and potatoes

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the liver mortis indicate to Russell about Pethering's body?

2. Who is with Ketteridge when Russell joins him after her bath?

3. How many of the people at the inn at the beginning of chapter eleven know who Russell is?

4. Which of the following items does Russell say she's afraid someone will ask her to take along?

5. What kind of lights does Holmes say the young people saw on what they believed to be Lady Howard's coach?

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