5 There are two mysteries in this story – the mystery of Dr. Watson’s locked box, and the murder mystery. Can you guess what happens? Choose the best answer or answers to these questions.
1.Why didn’t Dr.Watson want anyone to read his report until fifty years had passed?
a)Because he had done something wrong and did not want the police to know that he was a criminal.
b)Because he had seen terrible things, and did not want his wife and family to read about them.
c)Because he knew a secret about Holmes and did not want anyone to know it until many years later.
2.What happens to Jack the Ripper?
a)He murders more women in Whitechapel.
b)Sherlock Holmes shoot him.
c)The police catch him without Holmes’s help.
d)Dr. Watson finds out who he really is.
e)He is never caught, and just disappears. Nobody ever hears of him again.
A C T I V I T I E S
While Reading
Read the Foreword and Introduction. Choose the best question-word for these questions, and then answer them. What/When/Who
1.What did the locked box contain?
2.When was the box opened?
3.What did some people say about Watson?
4.Who wanted to write about Sherlock Holmes?
5.What did Sherlock Holmes think of A study in Scarlet?
6.Who fell in love with Mary Morstan?
Read Chapter 1,and then answer these questions.
1.What happened when Holmes was bored?
-He also began to use cocaine.
2.Why did Inspector Lestrade need Holmes’s help?
-Because the police were unable to find the killer.