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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is with Ketteridge when Russell joins him after her bath?
(a) Holmes
(b) A half dozen guests
(c) No one
(d) Serveral servers

2. How many of the people at the inn at the beginning of chapter eleven know who Russell is?
(a) Only three or four
(b) All of them
(c) Only the manager
(d) No one

3. When the young family arrives at Lew Trenchard looking for a place to stay, who is it that offers them a house for a week?
(a) The constable
(b) Baring-Gould
(c) Mrs. Elliott
(d) The doctor

4. What is the toast Ketteridge proposes when Russell joins him?
(a) To gold
(b) To change
(c) To wealth
(d) To friends

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

6. What does Miss Baskerville say happened to strengthen her resolve to find a tenant for Baskerville Hall?
(a) Pipes burst
(b) The war began
(c) She planned to marry
(d) Tax laws became very expensive

7. What position does the young man named Adam hold, according to Baring-Gould?
(a) Head beekeeper
(b) Constable
(c) Groundskeeper at Lew Trenchard
(d) Doctor

8. What weapon is Russell carrying when she and Holmes go onto the moor in search of Ketteridge and Schiemann?
(a) A shotgun
(b) A handful of grenades
(c) A knife
(d) A pistol

9. What was Baring-Gould's mother's name?
(a) Matilda
(b) Elizabeth
(c) Grace
(d) Sophia

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

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

12. What kind of building is Wheal Betsy?
(a) Brick
(b) Adobe
(c) Wood
(d) Sod

13. What is the snack young Samuel stops to eat on his way home from his aunt's house?
(a) Peanut butter
(b) Scones
(c) Bread and cheese
(d) Roast beef

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

15. How does Russell make her way from her hotel back to the train for the return trip to the moor?
(a) By horse
(b) By taxi
(c) By tram
(d) She walks

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Mycroft?

2. How many stories of sightings of the coach does Russell hear during the day of questioning in chapter eleven?

3. How many miles does Russell have to cover in order to reach the inn at Tavistock?

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

5. What is the subject of the first song the singing moor men perform?

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