2. True
3. False—Holmes is looking for Neville St. Clair.
4. False—Mrs. St. Clair saw her husband in the window of the Bar of Gold.
5. False—St. Clair’s coat pockets are filled with 421 pennies and 270 half-pennies.
6. False—Mrs. St. Clair noticed that her husband was not wearing his collar or tie.
7. False—Mrs. St. Clair surprises Holmes by telling him that she received a letter from her husband that very day.
8. True
9. True
10. True
QUIZ 22
1. B.
An old felt hat
2. C.
His wife no longer loves him.
3. C.
1,000 pounds
4. B.
On the banks of the Amoy River in southern China
5. A.
The Hotel Cosmopolitan
6. D.
Two murders, a vitriol-throwing, suicide, several robberies
7. A.
It is white with a barred tail.
8. D.
John Horner, the plumber who came to the Countess’s dressing room to solder a grate
9. A.
Henry Baker is a member of the Alpha Inn goose club, whose members contributed a few pence each week to the inn’s owner in return for a goose on Christmas.
10. A.
Holmes throws open the door and shouts at him to leave.
QUIZ 23
1. C.
Eight
2. B.
Mrs. Farintosh, from the case of the opal tiara
3. A.
Helen believes that her sister died of fright and nervous shock.
4. A.
She had spent the night in the room of her deceased sister and heard the strange whistle that her sister had heard a few days before she died.
5. C.
A cheetah and a baboon
6. A.
He started repairing the west wing of the manor, which required the wall of Miss Stoner’s room to be replaced.
7. C.
It is nailed to the floor.
8. B.
A small shaft used for ventilation
9. D.
Because of the scuff marks on the seat of the chair, Holmes knows that Dr. Roylott stood on the chair many times.
10. A.
Dr. Roylott bends Holmes’s fireplace poker with his bare hands.
QUIZ 24
1. Victor Hatherley is a hydraulic engineer.
2. Hatherley worked for Venner & Matheson, a firm from Greenwich.
3. Fifty guineas
4. Fuller’s Earth
5. A German woman named Elise
6. Hatherley notices a metallic deposit crusted on the floor.
7. Hatherley’s thumb is chopped off while he is hanging from a window sill.
8. Holmes discovers an advertisement in a newspaper about Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, a hydraulic engineer who has disappeared.
9. Dr. Becher and Elise help Hatherley escape.
10. Counterfeit coins
QUIZ 25
1. False—Hatty Doran’s father became wealthy from mining gold.
2. True
3. True
4. False—Lestrade believes that Hatty Doran’s body will be found in the river because he found a wedding dress, a pair of satin shoes, a bride’s wreath, and a veil floating near the shore.
5. True
6. False—Hatty Doran’s message was written on the back of a hotel bill.
7. False—As Hatty walked past Frank’s pew, she dropped her flowers, and upon picking them up, Frank passed her a note.
8. False—Hatty believed that Frank was killed by the Apache Indians.
9. True
10. False—Holmes finds Frank by visiting the hotel where they stayed and discovering their forwarding address.
QUIZ 26
1. C.
50,000 pounds
2. A.
39
3. B.
His son, Arthur, and his niece, Mary
4. C.
Arthur has considerable gambling debts.
5. D.
Arthur requests that his father allow him to leave the house for five minutes.
6. B.
Mary is under the spell of Sir George Burnwell.
7. A.
Mary leaves her uncle a note saying that she is leaving forever.
8. D.
Arthur is trying to protect the woman he loves.
9. C.
Holmes purchases a pair of Sir George’s shoes from Sir George’s valet and matches them to the tracks that were left in the snow.
10. A.
Lucy has been in his service for only a short time, and she has many admirers. While sneaking out to see a beau, she may have overheard Mr. Holder mention that he had brought the coronet home.
QUIZ 27
1. Westaway
2. 100 pounds a year
3. That Miss Hunter sit in a certain place in the room, wear an electric blue dress, and cut off her long hair
4. A fortnight
5. Black Swan Hotel at Winchester
6. Seven
7. Philadelphia
8. She spies him in the piece of mirror she holds in her hand when her back is to the window.
9. A large mastiff named Carlo
10. He says that he uses the room as a photography studio.
MAKING THE GRADE
Level Total Correct Answers
Deductive Genius 91–120
Holmes’ Apprentice 61–90
Watson’s Apprentice 31–60
Moriarty’s Victim 0–30
QUIZ 28
1. Holmes believes that Silver Blaze will show up because it is not possible to conceal such a popular horse in the sparsely inhabited area.
2. The man took a small white piece of paper from his waistcoat pocket.
3. John Straker held a red and black silk cravat.
4. Fitzroy Simpson had bet 5,000 pounds against Silver Blaze winning in the Wessex Cup, and an item of his clothing was found with the dead man.
5. The dish of curried mutton prepared by Mrs. Straker
6. A cataract knife and a receipt for an expensive dress
7. Silver Blaze is discovered in the neighboring stable of Mapleton.
8. A photograph of John Straker
9. Holmes asks if he has noticed anything amiss with his sheep.
10. Colonel Ross does not recognize Silver Blaze because the horse’s white markings were darkened with a stain.
QUIZ 29
1. False—Holmes reads the name printed on the lining of his hat.
2. False—Grant Munro is a hops merchant.
3. True
4. True
5. False—Munro was suspicious about his neighbors because he saw a strange face in the window of the cottage. He claimed that there was something unnatural about it.
6. False—Mrs. Munro told her husband that she needed fresh air because she felt as if she were choking.
7. False—Munro becomes angry when he discovers her photograph on the mantelpiece.
8. True
9. True
10. False—Mr. Munro lovingly accepts the situation.
QUIZ 30
1. B.
Holmes notices that Watson’s new slippers are slightly scorched. The only reasonable explanation, according to Holmes, is that Watson was warming his feet by the fire, which is rarely done in the summer, unless one is sick.
2. C.
The steps of Dr. Watson’s office are worn down more than the steps leading to the other doctor’s office.
3. A.
Pinner does not want Pycroft to notify his prospective employer of his decision not to accept his offer.
4. D.
When Pycroft enters the office, he notices that the room is very austere, lacking carpet, curtains, tables, and other employees.
5. A.
Pycroft is assigned the task of mark
ing off all the hardware sellers and their addresses listed in the Paris directory.
6. D.
Each man has a gold filling in the second tooth in the upper left jaw.
7. B.
They arrive with Pycroft, seeking employment.
8. C.
Mr. Pinner makes Pycroft write a declaration of service concerning his new job, and he requires that Pycroft not arrive at Mawson’s office on Monday morning as expected.
9. D.
Mr. Pinner tries to hang himself.
10. D.
He reads about his brother’s arrest in an early edition of the Evening Standard.
QUIZ 31
1. A man named Hudson, who was on a ship with Mr. Trevor, thirty years ago
2. Victor’s father was dying of apoplexy and nervous shock.
3. Holmes realizes that a secret code is written into the letter that caused Mr. Trevor to go mad.
4. Mr. Trevor reveals to his son, posthumously, the story of his past in a letter that he kept in a Japanese cabinet.
5. When he was working for a London banking house, Mr. Trevor stole money to pay a debt.
6. Jack Prendergast
7. Trevor refused to take part in the mutiny, so Prendergast allowed him and a convict named Evans to board a boat and leave the Gloria Scott.
8. The ship exploded, either intentionally by the hands of the first mate or by a stray bullet.
9. Hudson was the only person who survived the explosion.
10. They told the captain that they were the only survivors of a passenger ship that had exploded.
QUIZ 32
1. True
2. False—Brunton was a schoolmaster before he went to work for the Musgrave family.
3. False—Brunton’s only shortcoming was that he was a ladies man.
4. False—Brunton was fired when Reginald Musgrave found him going through the family papers in the library.
5. True
6. True
7. False—The Musgrave Ritual was drawn up during the time of the Norman Conquest.
8. False—Holmes miscalculates because he forgot to consider the words “and under.”
9. False—Brunton’s muffler is found near the cellar.
10. True
QUIZ 33
1. B.
In Lyons, France, at the Hotel Dulong
2. A.
A piece of a note
3. B.
Holmes writes down the wrong time, and Cunningham corrects it.
4. D.
He pretends to accidentally knock over a bowl of oranges.
5. C.
It is written by two different people.
6. D.
Twenty-three
7. A.
William Kirwin
8. A.
There were no powder burns on Kirwin’s clothes.
9. B.
A paper claiming that Mr. Acton owned half of the neighboring estate
10. B.
The nature of the relationships of Annie Morrison, Alec Cunningham, and William Kirwin
QUIZ 34
1. Colonel Barclay had bouts of depression and was afraid of the dark.
2. Thirty years
3. Mrs. Barclay was attending the meeting of the Guild of St. George.
4. David
5. A blow to the back of the neck
6. A mongoose named Teddy
7. Mrs. Barclay’s friend, Miss Morrison
8. Mr. Barclay was responsible for the capture and torture of the man she loved.
9. Apoplexy brought on by fright
10. The Bible
QUIZ 35
1. A.
He specializes in nervous diseases, especially catalepsy.
2. C.
Mr. Blessington paid Dr. Trevelyan’s expenses and kept three-fourths of all the money collected.
3. D.
Mr. Blessington thoroughly examined the financial books.
4. D.
He doesn’t trust banks, and he keeps everything he owns in a box in his room.
5. A.
A Russian nobleman and his son, who are seeking medical attention
6. D.
He notices footprints in the carpet.
7. A.
There are several different cigar ends and holders left in Blessington’s room.
8. B.
He is afraid of fires, and he wants to be prepared for a window escape if necessary.
9. C.
The page
10. B.
Holmes sees fear in Mr. Blessington’s eyes and speculates that Mr. Blessington knows who the intruders are.
QUIZ 36
1. His brother, Mycroft
2. Harold Latimer has the nervous habit of giggling when he speaks.
3. When Mr. Melas speaks to the victim, he adds short questions at the end of each statement.
4. Five sovereigns
5. J. Davenport
6. The kidnappers try to dispose of Melas and Kratides by poisoning them with carbon monoxide from burning charcoals.
7. Sophy would not cooperate with her captors.
8. They put plaster over Paul Kratides’s face so that his sister will not recognize him.
9. The kidnappers were found stabbed to death in Buda-Pesth.
10. They withhold food from Paul Kratides to try to force him into signing the paper.
QUIZ 37
1. False—Watson knew Perry Phelps from school. Phelps was two classes ahead of Watson, but they were the same age.
2. True
3. False—His uncle, Lord Holdhurst, secured the position for him.
4. True
5. False—Phelps’s fiancée, Miss Annie Harrison, and her brother Joseph Harrison cared for Phelps in his home.
6. False—Holmes deduces seven clues from Phelps’s story.
7. False—Holmes is aided by Detective Forbes.
8. True
9. False—The villain slashed Holmes’s knuckles with a knife.
10. True
QUIZ 38
1. C.
Letters from Moriarty’s brother, publicly defends the notorious professor, and Watson is compelled to write an account on behalf of Holmes.
2. D.
“He is the Napoleon of crime.”
3. A.
“You have less frontal development than I should have expected.”
4. A.
Three
5. D.
Three
6. B.
Holmes is disguised as an Italian priest.
7. D.
Mycroft, Holmes’s brother
8. A.
Moriarty has escaped.
9. B.
The hotel sends a message for Watson to attend to an Englishwoman who is very ill and who refuses to see a foreign doctor.
10. C.
Holmes slips the message into his silver cigarette case, which Watson finds at the falls.
QUIZ 39
1. Lady Hilda Trelawney Hope in “The Adventure of the Second Stain”
2. Sherlock Holmes in “The Adventure of the Dying Detective”
3. The Duke of Holdernesse in “The Adventure of the Priory School”
4. Captain Jack Croker in “The Adventure of the Abbey Grange”
5. Mycroft Holmes in “The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans”
6. Sir James Damery in “The Adventure of the Illustrious Client”
7. John Hopley Neligan in “The Adventure of Black Peter”
8. Nathan Garrideb in “The Adventure of the Three Garridebs”
9. Laura Lyons in The Hound of The Baskervilles
10. Culverton Smith in “The Adventure of the Dying Detective”
11. Cyril Overton in “The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter”
12. Sir Robert Norberton in “The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place”
13. John Hector McFarlane in “The Adventure of the Norwood Builder”
14. Dr. Thorneycroft Huxtable
in “The Adventure of the Priory School”
15. Lord Mount-James in “The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter”
16. Abe Slaney in “The Adventure of the Dancing Men”
17. Isadora Klein in “The Adventure of the Three Gables”
18. Josiah Amberley in “The Adventure of the Retired Colourman”
19. Professor Coram in “The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez”
20. Baron Gruner in “The Adventure of the Illustrious Client”
MAKING THE GRADE
Level Total Correct Answers
Deductive Genius 114–150
Holmes’ Apprentice 76–113
Watson’s Apprentice 38–75
Moriarty’s Victim 0–37
QUIZ 40
1. Ronald Adair died between 10:00 and 11:20 on the night of March 30, 1894.
2. Adair was a member of three card clubs and often gambled on the games.
3. Holmes is disguised as an old, deformed man.
4. The Origin of Tree Worship
5. Holmes recognizes one of the gang members lurking near his apartment.
6. Mrs. Hudson changes the position of the wax figure every fifteen minutes.
7. To lure Colonel Moran into a trap
8. Holmes suspected that Adair, realizing that Moran cheated at cards that evening, was attempting to return the money he won.
9. A bullet from the air gun shattered the forehead of the wax figure.
10. The air gun was placed in the Scotland Yard Museum.
QUIZ 41
1. False—John Hector McFarlane is arrested because his walking stick was found near the body.
2. True
3. False—Oldacre left McFarlane his entire estate.
4. True
5. True
6. False—Lestrade finds McFarlane’s bloody thumbprint on the wall in the hall of Oldacre’s house.
7. True
8. False—Holmes shouts “Fire!” and the murderer bolts from his hiding place.
9. False—Oldacre was in financial trouble and was trying to elude his creditor.
10. True
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