THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES

Answer the following questions.

CHAPTER 1

1) Who asked an appointment for Holmes?

2) Where is Dr James Mortimer from?
3) Who is with Holmes when Dr James Mortimer arrives?
4) What does Dr James Mortimer take out of his pocket?

CHAPTER 2

1) Who gave the papers to Dr Mortimer?

2) What had happened to Sir Charles Baskerville?
3) What were the papers about?
4) Who had written the story and why?
5) What was the danger?
6) When did the Hound of the Baskervilles first appear? What was it like? Who was
Sir Hugo Baskerville? What did Sir Hugo do and what happened to him? (pp. 3-6)

CHAPTER 3

1) What was Holmes’s reaction to the story about the Hound of the Baskervilles?
2) Did Dr Mortiner have any other papers to show Holmes?
3) How, where and when did Sir Charles die?
4) What was Sir Charles like?
5) Who was going to inherit Baskerville Hall?
6) What details didn’t appear in the newspaper?

CHAPTER 4

1) How did Holmes react to the news of other prints?

2) Was anything unusual seen on the moors?
3) What did Dr Mortimer want Holmes to do?
4) Who was Sir Henry Baskerville?
5) What was Dr Mortimer’s dilemma?
6) What did Holmes and Dr Mortimer agree?
7) What conclusions did Holmes reach at that point?

CHAPTER 5

1) What did Sir Henry Baskerville look like?

2) What did Sir Henry receive at the hotel?

3) Why did Holmes suspect that the address was written in a hurry in a hotel?

4) What another unusual thing happened to Sir Henry?

5) How did Sir Henry react to the story about the Hound and Sir Charles’s death?

6) What did Holmes decide to do after Dr Mortimer and Sir Henry had left for the hotel?

CHAPTER 6

1) What strange thing happened to Sir Henry?

2) What did Sir Henry decide about Baskerville Hall and what was Holmes opinion?

3) Who had a black beard?

4) How did they check if Barrymore was in London or at Baskerville Hall?

5) Who received money from Sir Charles’s will and did they know they were in the will?

6) Who would get Baskerville if Sir Henry died?

7) Who went to Baskerville Hall with Sir Henry?

CHAPTER 7

1) What did Holmes warn Sir Henry not to do?

2) How did they go to Baskerville Hall?
3) What weapon did Dr Watson take?
4) Who did they meet on the way to Baskerville Hall?
5) What was Sir Henry’s first impression of Baskerville Hall?
6) Who wellcomed Sir Henry and Dr Watson at Baskerville Hall?
7) What did Barrymore look like?

8) What did Dr Watson hear in the middle of the first night at Baskerville Hall?

CHAPTER 8

1) What was Barrymore’s reaction to Sir Henry’s question about a woman crying the night
before?

2) What did Dr Watson find out about the telegram that Holmes had sent from London?

3) Who did Dr Watson meet when he left the post office? What did he look like? What did he
propose Dr Watson?

4) What surprised Dr Watson about his conversation with Stapleton?

5) What was the Great Grimpen Marsh?

6) What eerie noise did Dr Watson and Stapleton hear on the moor? Who made that cry?

7) Who did Dr Watson meet while Stapleton was chasing a butterfly? What did she look
like? What was her warning?

8) When did Stapleton want to visit Sir Henry?

9) Why did Miss Stapleton apologise? Why didn’t she want her brother to know about her
warning?

CHAPTER 9

1) What was Sir Henry’s reaction when he met Miss Stapleton?

2) What was Mr Stapleton’s reaction to the closeness between Sir Henry and Miss
Stapleton?
3) Who was Mr Frankland? What hobbies did he have?
4) What mysterious thing did Dr Watson see Barrymore doing one night?
5) What happened the following night? What was Barrymore’s reaction?
6) What did Mrs Barrymore tell Sir Henry and Dr Watson about the light?
7) What did Sir Henry and Dr Watson do after that confession?
8) Who was watching Sir Henry and Dr Watson after chasing Selden on the moors?

CHAPTER 10

1) Why was Sir Charles waiting at the gate?

2)Who is L.L.? Who told Watson the name of the woman?
3) Why isn’t her father talking to her?
4) Who has made her life very unhappy?
5) Who has helped her?
6) What did Selden tell Barrimore about the other man who was hiding in the moor?
7) Where does Mrs Laura Lyons live?

CHAPTER 11

1) Who visited Mrs Laura Lyons?

2) Did Mrs Laura Lyons write to Sir Charles? What did she want?
3) Did she finally meet Sir Charles? Why?

CHAPTER 12

1) Who was Watson looking for on the moor?

2) Who invited Watson to his house?
3) What did Mr Frankland tell Watson about the escaped prisoner?
4) What did Watson see though Mr Frankland’s telescope?
5) Who was the boy really bringing things to?
6) What did Watson find out when he went into the hut?
7) Who was the mysterious man that had come to the moor secretly? Where was he
staying?

CHAPTER 13

1) How did Watson feel when he realized Holmes was outside the hut?
2) Why was Watson upset and angry with Holmes?
3) Which reasons did Holmes give Watson about his decision of hiding in the hut?
4) Who is Mrs Lyons very close friend to?
5) Are Miss Stapleton and Mr Stapleton siblings? Who is Miss Stapleton?
6) Who owned a school in the north of England?
7) What did the owners of the school do when it closed?
8) Who is Holmes and Watson’s enemy?
9) Who may help Holmes and Watson when he/she discovers the truth?
10) What did Holmes and Watson hear?

CHAPTER 14
1) Who did Holmes and Watson think the dead man was? Why did they think so?
2) Who was the dead man?
3) Why do Holmes and Watson think Sir Henry’s shoe was stolen from the hotel?
4) Who does Holmes want to trap?
5) Why was Selden wearing Sir Henry’s clothes?
6) Who came to the scene of the crime?
7) Was Mr Stapleton surprised when he realized the dead man was Selden and not
Sir Henry?
8) Who had invited Sir Henry to his house that night? Did Sir Henry go?
9) Did Holmes and Watson tell Mr Stapleton the truth about the noise in the moor?
10) What theory about Selden’s death did Watson tell Mr Stapleton?
11) Who says that he is returning to London?
12) Where are Holmes and Watson going to that night?

CHAPTER 15
1) Why was Sir Henry surprised to see Holmes?
2) Who told Barrymore and his wife about Selden’s death?
3) Which picture impressed Holmes? Why?
4) What does Holmes think of Mr Stapleton?
5) What did Holmes ask Sir Henry to do?
6) Who did finally travel to London?
7) What did Holmes asked the little boy to do?
8) Where did Holmes and Watson go?
9) What did Holmes tell Mrs Laura Lyons?
10) What did she think about Mr Stapleton?
11) What did Laura tell Holmes and Watson?

CHAPTER 16
1) Who was Sir Henry having dinner with?
2) Where did Holmes and Watson go? Why?
3) What did Watson see through the window?
4) Where did Stapleton go? What did he do there?
5) What could make Holmes’ plans go wrong?
6) Did Holmes and Watson see Sir Henry leave the house?
7) What else did they see?
CHAPTER 17
1) What happened to the hound? Who killed it?
2) Why does the hound seem to bum in the dark?
3) Who did Holmes and Watson find in the Stapleton’s house?
4) Who had hurt and tied Miss Stapleton?
5) Who was she worried about?
6) What did she tell Holmes and Watson about Mr Stapleton?
7) Did they find any sign of Stapleton?
8) What do Holmes and Watson think that happened to Stapleton?
9) Where did Sir Henry stay that night? Who stayed with him?

CHAPTER 18
1) Who was Stapleton?
2) Which was Stapleton’s real name?
3) Who was he married to?
4) Why did he move to Devonshire?
5) Why did Stapleton buy a hound?
6) Why were Sir Henry’s shoes stolen?
7) What are Sir Henry and Dr Mortimer going to do?