Hound of the Baskervilles - Checking your understanding part. The questions that should be answered are included below. Chapters 1-4 Find answers to these questions in the text.
1 When was the Hound of the Baskervilles first seen?
2 What was interesting about Sir Charles' footprints in Yew Alley?
3 Who saw the footprints of a huge hound in Yew Alley?
4 How did Dr Mortimer know that Sir Charles had stood for five or
ten minutes by the moor gate?

Chapters 5-9 Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)?
1 The man ·with the large black beard in the taxi was Barrymore.
2 Roger Baskerville was Sir Henry's uncle.
3 Holmes stayed in London while Dr Watson and Sir Henry went to
Baskerville Hall.
4 Miss Stapleton· thought that Dr Watson was in danger .
. 5 Sel4en, the escaped prisoner, was Mrs Barrymore's brother.

Chapters 10-14 How much can you remember? Check your answers.
1 Who had written a letter to Sir Charles to ask for a meeting?
2 What did Mr Frankland see through his telescope?
3 Why did Holmes live secretly in a hut on the moor?
4 Why did Holmes and Dr Watson think that Selden's body was Sir
Henry?

Chapters 15-18 Write answers to these questions.,
1 Who did the picture of Sir Hugo look like? .
. 2 Why did Holmes say that he and Dr Watson were going to London?
3 How did Stapleton get Mrs Lyons to help him?
4 Why did the Hound seem supernatural?
5 Why did Stapleton beat his wife and tie her up?
6 How did Stapleton die?
7 Why did Stapleton want to murder Sir Henry?

1 Choose the best linking word and complete these sentences with
information from chapters 1-7. '
1 Dr Mortimer went to see Sherlock Holmes because/although ...
2 Because/although Dr Mortimer was a man of science, he ...
3 Sir Henry's old shoe was stolen before/after ...
'4 Holmes thought Sir Henry's life would be in danger if/unless ...
5 Holmes himself could not leave London until/since . . .
2 Put this summary of chapters 15 and 16 in the right order, and then
join the p, arts together to make five sentences.
1 who told them the truth about her letter to Sir Charles
2 and Sherlock Holmes shot and killed it
3 as soon as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson left Baskerville Hall in
the morning
4 then Holmes and Watson went to visit Mrs Lyons
5 and hid behind some rocks
6 they went to the station at Newton
7 Holmes and Watson ran after the Hound
8 where Holmes told his boy to go· to London
9 Stapleton let the Hound out and it chased Sir Henry
10 in the evening Holmes and Watson drove to the Stapleton's house
11 and from there to send a telegram to Sir Charles
12 when Sir Henry left the house and began to walk ,back to the Hall