A Study in Scarlet Quizzes

A Study in Scarlet Quiz 1

1 What year was the novel published?
1887

1881

1886

1879
2 This novel is the ______ Sherlock Holmes novel.
third

second

fourth

first
3 The narrator of the novel is
Watson

Holmes

John Ferrier

A third-person omniscient narrator
4 Watson was stationed in
Austria

Russia

Afghanistan

Uzbekistan
5 At war, all of the following happened to Watson EXCEPT
He lost a limb

He got typhoid fever

He was saved by his orderly

He was struck with a bullet
6 Watson was sent to recover in
London

Paris

America

Oxford
7 Stamford is
Watson's orderly

An old war friend of Watson's

Watson's cousin

A man Watson met at a bar for the first time
8 The problem Watson tells Stamford about is
His need to find cheap lodging

His unrequited love for a young woman

His poverty

His illness
9 Stamford offers all of the following information about Holmes EXCEPT
Stamford does not know what Holmes actually does for a living

He is very scientific and cold-blooded

He has a lot of out-of-the-way knowledge

He is a scientist and a chemist
10 What piece of information does Holmes identify about Watson upon their first meeting?
That Watson was wealthy

That Watson had been wounded

That Watson had been in Afghanistan

That Watson was an only child
11 The "Sherlock Holmes test" concerns
Blood

Dirt

Fingerprints

Mucus
12 Holmes admits to which of the following as a shortcoming of his?
He is excessively fond of smoking

He eats a great deal

He keeps strange hours

He is in the dumps and doesn't open his mouth for days on end
13 All of the following are shortcomings of Watson EXCEPT
He is extremely lazy

He has frequent company

He keeps odd hours

He keeps a bull pup
14 "The proper study of mankind is _____"
God

Nature

Love

Man
15 Holmes's and Watson's new abode is on
Baker Street

Downing Street

Dover Street

Main Street
16 Watson suspected that Holmes was involved with _______, but concluded that was probably not true
Narcotics

Crime

A love affair

Religious faith
17 Watson is extremely surprised that Holmes is unaware of the
Copernican Theory

American Civil War

Impressionist Painters

Theory of Evolution
18 All of the following are areas of knowledge in which Watson identifies Holmes as having little or no awareness of EXCEPT
Chemistry

Astronomy

Literature

Philosophy
19 The area of knowledge of which Holmes has an immense understanding of is
Politics

Botany

Sensational literature

Geology
20 Holmes's musical instrument of choice is the
Piano

Flute

Violin

Clarinet
21 "The Book of Life" is an article about
Observation and deduction

Religion

Chemistry

Politics
22 Who is the author of the "Book of Life?"
Watson

A renowned scientist

Holmes

Anonymous
23 Holmes describes himself as a
Law-enforcing detective

Teacher

Scientist

Consulting detective
24 Watson says Holmes reminds him of the creation of
Samuel Johnson

Daniel Defoe

Edgar Allen Poe

William Shakespeare
25 Holmes identifies the man outside as
A retired sergeant of the Marines

A professor at Oxford

A member of Scotland Yard

A soldier

A central message or insight into life revealed through the literary work.

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A Study in Scarlet

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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