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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ketteridge say was the most exciting moment of his life?
(a) When he discovered gold
(b) When he met Holmes
(c) When he bought Baskerville Hall
(d) When he met Russell

2. What does Ketteridge say he'd like to hire Holmes to do?
(a) Look into the case of the hound
(b) Look into the strange death of Josiah Gorton
(c) Look into the possibility of gold in the moor
(d) Write a story about the hound

3. What does Russell say she was doing on the moor that brought her to Ketteridge's house?
(a) Meeting Holmes
(b) Looking for clues
(c) Hoping for a chance to see him again
(d) Out for a ride

4. What does Baring-Gould say is his relationship to Holmes?
(a) He is Holmes' grandfather
(b) He is Holmes' uncle
(c) He is Holmes' second cousin
(d) He is Holmes' godfather

5. What phase is the moon in when Russell looks at the moor for the first time without rain, near the end of chapter ten?
(a) Half
(b) Full
(c) A sliver
(d) Quarter

6. What does Mrs. Elliott provide for Russell to drink when she returns to the house?
(a) Hot milk
(b) Coffee
(c) Brandy
(d) Tea and whiskey

7. What is the nickname given to Russell by the people of hte moor?
(a) Zherlock Mary
(b) Mrs. Znoop Zherlock
(c) Znoop Russell
(d) Znoop Mary

8. What is Ketteridge using to cover the sounds of his "salting" the moor with gold?
(a) Blasts from a mining operation
(b) The rattle of Lady Howard's coach
(c) Thunderstorms
(d) Trains

9. What does Baring-Gould say is the reason it's difficult to keep bees on the moor?
(a) The lengthy winter
(b) The wind
(c) The lack of flowers
(d) The constant rain

10. What does the telegram from New York say about the previous actions of one of the men Holmes required about?
(a) That he was a gold miner
(b) That he had killed his wife
(c) That he was headmaster of a school
(d) That he was suspected of a real estate scam

11. Which of the following are among the things Russell notes about Postbridge?
(a) There are two churches and a phone kiosk
(b) There are many houses in a rouch circle around the town's center
(c) There are no church buildings but there is a school
(d) There are three places to buy liquor and one place to eat

12. Where does Ketteridge say he and Scheimann first met?
(a) In London
(b) On a boat
(c) In California
(d) In Dartmoor

13. Where is the doctor when Russell goes looking for the Taylor family?
(a) Tending a woman with rheumatism
(b) Attending a funeral
(c) Riding on the moor
(d) Attending a birth

14. 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 wrote stories about ghostly sightings
(c) That he was an attorney and a philanthropist
(d) That he was studying to be a doctor and had a limp

15. How old was Baring-Gould when he died?
(a) Eighty-nine
(b) Eighty
(c) Eighty-four
(d) Ninety

Short Answer Questions

1. What color are the shoes is the child wearing when she directs Russell toward Elizabeth Chase's house?

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

3. What does Holmes say was Ketteridge's fate?

4. Which of the following was among the items found in Pethering's bag?

5. Who drives Russell back to Lew Trenchard?

(see the answer keys)

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