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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Answers to book activities
1 a He’s a detective
b At Baskerville Hall on Dartmoor
c 1 He has died.
2 He is a doctor and Holmes’friend.
3 He is an escaped prisoner.
4 He is a naturalist.
5 He is a servant
6 He is Sir Charles’nephew and has recently
arrived at Baskerville Hall
3 1 g, 2 j, 3 h, 4 i, 5 c, 6 a, 7 b, 8 d, 9 f,
10 e
3 a adjective - gigantic, verb - confess, noun
- fate
b Open answers
4 a Dr Mortimer was a close friend of Sir
Charles.
b Sherlock Holmes agrees to help Dr
Mortimer.
c Dr Watson works with Sherlock Holmes.
d Hugo Baskerville lived in the seventeenth
century.
e Sir Charles Baskerville died in a
mysterious way.
f Sir Henry Baskerville had a father who
was Sir Charles’s brother.
g Mr Stapleton is a naturalist.
h Mrs Barrymore was a servant of Sir
Charles.
5 Open answers
6 a The letter consists of only one sentence.
The words have been cut fom the Times
and stuck ona piece of paper.
b He discovers that the writer was in a
hurry and was an educated man
pretending to be uneducated.
c It has been written rather than cut from
the newspaper.
d One of his boots. It is brown and Sir
Henry has never worn it.
e He had a bushy beard and sharp eyes.
7 Open answers
8 Open answers
9 a mire b carriage c roar
10 a3, b1, c 3, d1, e1, f2, g1, h2
11 Open answers
12 To always carry his gun with him, to report
back anything that might be connected with
the case.
13 It is an area of marsh that can suck animals
into it after the rains. There are a few islands
of solid ground in the Mire and one or two
safe paths across it.
14 Open answers
15 Open answers
16 a divorce b reputation c reputation
d divorce e reputation f divorce
17 Open answers
18 Open answers
19 a He is signalling to the escaped prisoner,
who is his wife’s brother. They have been
giving him food.
b They go on to the moor to catch the
prisoner.
c She was going to ask him for money.
d Because she received help from
someone else.
f Because he didn’t want to be seen by his
enemies and put them on their guard.
20 a That they are married and not brother
and sister.
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b Laura Lyons hoped to become
Stapleton’s wife.
21 Because Sir Henry gave the clothes to
Barrymore who in turn gave them to Seldon.
22 Open answers, but probably so that
everyone, including the murderer thinks that
he is on the moor alone
23 He hasn’t called the police because he has
no proof. Open answer
a chemistry
b matches
c brilliant
25 a The face of Hugo is exactly the same as
Stapleton’s, proving that Stapleton is a
Baskerville.
b It is a picture of the Stapleton’s showing
that they are married.
c Holmes, Watson and Lestrade hide
behind them.
d Stapleton used the boot to set the hound
on its track.
d The phosphorus was on the hound’ s
face.
26–33 Open answers
Answers to Factsheet activities
■ Communicative activities
Open answers
■ Student’s activities
Activities before reading the book
(a) Scottish
(b) He was a ship’s doctor.
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(d) To work as a doctor in the Boer War.
(e) In the Strand Magazine.
(f) Historical books, science fiction books,
reports on his war experiences and
spiritualism.
(g) He developed an interest in spiritualism.
(h)In 1930. He was 61.
Activities while reading the book
CHAPTERS 1–4
Chapters 1 and 2
1 Open answers
2 (a) doctor
(b) because his friend, Sir Charles
Baskerville, has just died.
(c) wild and cruel man
(d) a girl across the moor
(e) standing over them
(f) dead
Chapters 3 & 4
1 (a) excited - Sherlock Holmes. Holmes
leaned forward in excitement, and his
eyes shone (page 8)
(b) deeply moved – Dr Mortimer. The
doctor’s shaking voice showed that he
was deeply moved by what he had told
us. (page 8)
(c) impatient – Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock
Holmes struck his knee impatiently.
(page 9)
(d) satisfied – Sherlock Holmes. ‘What do
think of that, Watson?’cried Holmes in
great joy, rubbing his hands together with
satisfaction. (page 13)
(e) angry – Sir Henry Baskerville. ‘There is
no devil and no man that can prevent me
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going to the home of my own family.’His
face turned red as he spoke; it was clear
that the hot temper of the Baskervilles
still lived in him
2 Open answers
3 (a) He likes to be alone.
(b) He plays the violin.
CHAPTERS 5 & 6
1 (i) Dr Mortimer speaking to Sherlock
Holmes about James Desmond, who
would inherit Baskerville Hall if anything
happened to Sir Henry.
Dr Mortimer said that he was quite old
and was a man of good life and simple
tastes.
(ii) Sherlock Holmes talking to Dr Mortimer
about being followed from Holmes’house
to the hotel.
Holmes asked Dr Mortimer if he knew
that he had been followed from Holmes’
house.
(iii)Sherlock Holmes speaking to Dr Watson
about the person responsible for the
murder.
Sherlock Holmes said that this time they
had an enemy worth fighting.
2 Open answers
3 Open answers
CHAPTERS 7 & 8
After (a) breakfast Watson meets Mrs
Barrymore. He realizes that she is the person
he heard (b) crying in the night. He takes a (c)
walk along the edge of the (d) moor and he (e)
meets Stapleton. Stapleton (f) surprises Watson
by asking him if Holmes has come to a decision
about the (g) death of Sir Charles. Stapleton (h)
chased a small fly across the (i) Mire without
losing his (j) foothold. Miss Stapleton thinks that
Watson is (k) Sir Henry, and tells him to go (l)
back to London. In the night, Watson hears (m)
footsteps passing his room. He and Sir Henry
make a (n) discovery
CHAPTERS 9-12
Chapters 9 & 10
1 (a) He follows Sir Henry to make sure that
he is not in danger.
(b) He sees Sir Henry with Miss Stapleton.
He then sees Mr Stapleton come up to
Sir Henry and Miss Stapleton, he looks
very angry and makes Sir Henry leave.
(c) Stapleton says that he could not stand
the thought of losing his sister and being
alone without her.
2 (a) False. He is her younger brother.
(b) False. They go onto the moor to catch
the prisoner.
(c) False. They think they hear a hound.
(d) True
(e) True
3 Open answers
CHAPTERS 11 & 12
1 Laura Lyons - pretty, anxious, sad
Mr Stapleton - cunning, deceitful, patient
2 Open answers
3 (a) Because he sees the cigarette that
Watson threw away.
(b) It was Sherlock Holmes.
(c) Because he thinks that he can use her to
lure Sir Henry onto the moor if Sir Henry
falls in love with her and thinks that she
is not married.
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(d) Sherlock Holmes.
(e) The escaped prisoner. Because he
is wearing Sir Henry’s clothes that
the Barrymores gave him.
(f) Because he does not show his
surprise that the wrong man has
been killed.

CHAPTERS 13-15
Chapters 13 & 14
1 (a) 2, (b) 5, (c) 7, (d) 9, (e) 8, (f) 1,
(g) 6, (h) 10, (i) 9, (j) 4, (k) 3
2 Open answers
Chapter 15
(a)He was Sir Charles’nephew.
(b)He was killed by fear.
(c) He wanted to give the hound a scent to
follow, but Sir Henry had not worn the
new boot so there was no scent, so
Stapleton stole the old boot.
(d)So that Stapleton would not be
suspicious.
(e)So that Sir Henry would go to Merrypit
House and give Stapleton the
opportunity to kill him.
Activities after reading the book
Open answers

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