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150 multiple-choice questions and 45 flashcards, written to the Common Core ELA 7-10 reading literature; middle-school + early-HS staple of the detective novel tradition blueprint. Every question carries a full rationale.
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Common Core ELA 7-10 reading literature; middle-school + early-HS staple of the detective novel tradition
CoStudy's Hound of the Baskervilles (Doyle) bank holds 195 items. Every multiple-choice question carries a written rationale explaining why the correct answer is correct and why each distractor is tempting but wrong.
A sample of 12 multiple-choice questions from the bank, with the full rationale shown.
The theme of the past haunting the present is dramatized through:
Answer: A — The manuscript that re-emerges to shape modern crime
B/C/D) Wrong. A) The old document literally drives the new murder plot.
Which trait of Holmes is most emphasized through his examination of Mortimer's stick?
Answer: D — Deductive observation
A/C/B) Present but not the highlight. D) The opening showcases his trademark inference from objects.
The setting is:
Answer: A — Dartmoor in Devon
B/C/D) Wrong. A) Correct — fog + bogs + neolithic ruins make Dartmoor itself a character.
The setting's blend of pre-Roman ruins, ancestral estate, and modern detective work establishes:
Answer: D — A layered landscape where deep past pressures the present
A/C/B) Wrong. D) Doyle stacks eras within a few square miles for effect.
The novel sidesteps the 'death' problem by being set:
Answer: A — Before the Reichenbach events, as a recovered earlier case
B/C/D) Wrong. A) The frame is a pre-Final Problem case Watson now relates.
The phosphorus paint is thematically important because it argues:
Answer: D — The marvelous always has a material explanation
A/C/B) Wrong. D) Doyle's late-Victorian rationalism prefers a recipe to a demon.
The novel is the ___ Sherlock Holmes novel.
Answer: D — Third
A) A Study in Scarlet. D) Correct — after A Study in Scarlet (1887) + The Sign of the Four (1890). C) None. B) The Valley of Fear is later.
Holmes's signature epistemic principle in the novel is:
Answer: B — Eliminate the impossible — whatever remains is the truth
A/C/D) Wrong. B) Correct — Holmes states the rule + applies it to dissolve the curse into a criminal plan.
Edwardian readers approached the novel during:
Answer: C — The first years of Edward VII's reign
A/B/D) Wrong. C) The serial ran 1901-1902, just as the Edwardian era began.
Holmes's attitude toward folklore in the novel is best described as:
Answer: C — Treating it as data to be tested empirically
A/B/D) Wrong. C) He neither dismisses nor accepts; he interrogates the manuscript like any clue.
In the climax, the hound is stopped by:
Answer: B — Holmes + Watson shooting it dead in the fog
A/C/D) Wrong. B) Correct — the trap is set + the beast is killed in the open. Sir Henry is shaken but alive.
What does Mrs. Barrymore's role show about Doyle's treatment of servants?
Answer: D — Even servants carry private grief and complex loyalties
A/C/B) Reductive. D) Her grief humanizes the household subplot.
6 sample cards from the 45 in the bank.
Major adaptations?
Multiple films (1939 Basil Rathbone; 1959 Hammer's Peter Cushing; 1988 with Jeremy Brett; 2002 BBC Richard Roxburgh). The 2012 BBC Sherlock 'Hounds of Baskerville' transposes the plot.
Who is Laura Lyons?
Estranged daughter of the eccentric Frankland. Tricked by Stapleton into asking Sir Charles for a private meeting on the night of his death.
Who is Barrymore?
Baskerville Hall's butler. Suspicious behavior turns out to be aiding his brother-in-law Selden, an escaped convict.
Common student misreading?
Treating the curse as the actual answer. Doyle uses the supernatural as misdirection; the entire genre depends on his sleight of hand.
Genre?
Detective novel + gothic mystery + late-Victorian thriller. Doyle blends rational detection with gothic atmosphere.
Why is a new boot stolen, then an old boot?
Stapleton needs an unworn smell-free boot for the hound to track. The thief takes a boot Sir Henry has not yet worn + returns it when it's useless.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Doyle) bank holds 195 items: 150 multiple-choice questions, 45 flashcards. 18 of them are on this page to read free, with no signup.
Yes. Every multiple-choice item carries a written rationale that states the controlling principle behind the correct answer and then addresses each wrong option in turn — why it tempts and precisely where it fails. Knowing why the plausible answer was wrong is worth more than knowing which letter was right.
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Last reviewed 2026-08-22. Banks are written against the certifying body's published exam outline and re-checked when that outline changes — exams get renumbered, retired and reweighted, and a bank written to a superseded outline teaches the wrong proportions. Figures that are re-indexed annually are deliberately not asserted as rules; the questions test the governing principle instead.