Step Four READING & TRAINING KEY TO THE EXERCISES Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Page 21 – exercise 5 Page 30 – exercise 4 Open answers. 1 The man is face down. 2 There is no blood on the floor. 3 The B2.1 detective (left) doesn’t have a CHAPTER TWO A STUDY moustache. 4 Holmes does not have Page 21 – exercise 1 a hat. 5 There is a lamp, not a A-C Open answers. (Possible answers candle, above the fireplace. 6 The C: there is no light in the room; there window frame is a different colour. is blood on the floor; the man has 7 The detective doesn’t have the something in his hand). telegram in his hand. 8 The victim is not holding anything in his hand. Page 21 – exercise 2 in Scarlet Page 30 – exercise 5 Mr Gregson at Scotland Yard, asking KEY TO THE EXERCISES AND EXIT TEST for Holmes’ help in the case. Part one: A Watson B Holmes C Gregson and Page 28 – exercise 1 Lestrade D Holmes E Watson Sir Arthur Conan Doyle D The death of both his father and A Where did the murder take place? F Holmes. wife in just a short space of time. In a house on Brixton Road. Part two: Page 7 – exercise 1 E Open answer. B Who was investigating the case? Holmes’ questions need more direct B In 1885 Conan Doyle received a Page 7 – exercise 3 Scotland Yard – detectives answers, e.g., ‘Are you sure there’s no degree in medicine from Edinburgh Gregson and Lestrade. injury?’ The answer is often yes or 1, 2 and 4 are connected to Sherlock University. C What did the house look like? It no. Holmes. 3 and 5 are connected to C In 1887 A Study in Scarlet was first looked empty and sad and had a Part three: open answers. published, in Beeton’s Christmas Agatha Christie’s famous Belgian small, untidy garden. Inside the Annual. detective, Hercule Poirot. wallpaper was old and torn and Page 31 – exercise 6 D In 1890 the second Sherlock there was no furniture in the room Open answers. Holmes novel, The Sign of Four, PART ONE - CHAPTER ONE they were in. was published. D Did Lestrade think the murderer Page 19 – exercise 1 CHAPTER THREE E In 1893 Conan Doyle’s wife was was a man? No, he thought it was diagnosed with tuberculosis. 1 C 2 B 3 C 4 A a woman named Rachel. Page 31 – exercise 1 F In 1901 The Strand magazine Page 20 – exercise 2 E What did the man have in his Holmes says he knows these things published the first episode of The pocket? A gold watch and two about the murderer: he is tall, with A 5 B 4 C 2 D 3 E 1 F no Hound of the Baskervilles. letters. small feet. He has a red face. He has Page 20 – exercise 3 F What was the word (written) on long fingernails on his right hand. He Page 7 – exercise 2 Possible answers: 1 He was brown the wall? Rache. smokes cigars. He also knows that he A On a ship. First as an arctic whaler, from the sun. 2 He was probably a arrived at the house in a cab with the and then travelling to Africa. Page 28 – exercise 2 doctor. 3 He had been victim. B He was a doctor, a politician, a 1 C 2 D 3 E 4 A 5 F 6 B shot/wounded. 4 He had hurt his crime writer and a spiritualist. Page 31 – exercise 2 arm while he was in the army. Page 29 – exercise 3 C No, he felt his life was being taken The cab he sees from the wheel over by Sherlock Holmes and Page 21 – exercise 4 1 was found/has been found 2 victim marks from the night before (only 3 is thought 4 have said 5 evidence wanted to end the stories. He C one set of wheel marks). The probably wanted to be 6 was murdered 7 motive 8 is footprints show that he is tall but has remembered for other things, too. 9 are looking 10 clues 11 is believed small feet. The scratch of his 12 have been asked 13 case fingernail when writing with the (deduction not needed) blood on the wall show he writes with 2 KEY TO THE EXERCISES KEY TO THE EXERCISES his right hand and his fingernail must Page 42 – exercise 7 Page 50 – exercise 6 Page 60 – exercise 4 be long. There was ash from a cigar A nearest B murderer C confused 1 2345 A We are kept guessing as on the floor. It is not clear why he D drunk E lose F disappointed to what Holmes really 6 S C O T L A N D Y A R D had a red face. G man H tired I young does know and we want T C R R R Page 39 – exercise 1 Missing word: secretary to know how he will A 7 Q U I E T E arrive at his conclusion, A F – He sent a telegram. Page 42 – exercise 8 N U V H B just like Watson does. B T C F – It was only Holmes that gold wedding ring; found – Brixton saw it. D T E F – He left a ring. Road; ask for (not apply); 221B Baker G A E 8 U R B A N Page 60 – exercise 5 F T Street. E 11 9 I N N E R E 2 and 4 were not found in the room. Page 39 – exercise 2 10 R A C H E N R Part one: CHAPTER FOUR S L T 12 Page 61 – exercise 6 A 4 B 1 C 5 D 2 E 6 F 3 Page 49 – exercise 1 O U 14A 15 M The pills. Part two: open answers. 1 B 2 C 3 A 4 A 13 N I E C E N W A Page 61 – exercise 7 Page 40 – exercise 3 Page 49 – exercise 2 A C A G He gives one to a sick dog. 1 must have come 2 might have been 1 Arthur Charpentier used a stick to B E U S T O N One pill is harmless, the 3 might have lost the ring 4 must 16 kill Drebber. other pill kills the dog. have been D S I 2 Drebber was staying at Possible answers as to why Page 41 – exercise 4 Charpentier’s Guest House. R O F the murder had two pills: he wanted to trick the victim 1 2 a.m. 2 no one 3 a light in one of 3 The wedding ring was just a trick 17 A M E R I C A N N Y into thinking he was going the windows 4 called for help 5 tall, to give the police the wrong idea. V I to poison him and then kill with a red face, wearing an overcoat 4 Drebber became violent because E N him another way. He wanted 6 an idiot/stupid he was drunk. R G to trick the police, etc. Real Page 41 – exercise 5 Page 49 – exercise 3 answer: he was giving his CHAPTER FIVE Crime type: murder Correct order: 2, 4, 1, 3 victim a choice over life and Page 59 – exercise 1 death to truly see if there At: 23, Brixton Road Page 50 – exercise 4 Time reported: 2.30 a.m 1 E 2 D 3 F 4 B 5 A 6 C was justice. To create suspense and not give all Victim: M. Name: Enoch Drebber the details so we want to know more. Page 59 – exercise 2 State of victim...: already dead Possible answers: Chapter One: ‘But Time of death: late evening/early We don’t know D, H, or J. We only know G this is terrible! There’s been a morning Cause of death: poison? in part. murder.’ We want to know more Name of other officers…: Lestrade about the murder. Chapter Two: Page 60 – exercise 3 and Gregson (Scotland Yard) ‘Come, Doctor Watson… don’t waste Suspect: M. Name: unknown Name and The victims Where the bodies Cause of death Clues your time looking for Miss Rachel.’ description of the were found (if known) Other information: tall, small feet, We want to know more about what murderer (or long fingernails. Smokes. Possibly Holmes knows. Chapter Three: ‘His Holmes’ suspect) American. Speaks German? passenger had disappeared… That Jefferson Hope. Enoch Drebber – in a house in Brixton most likely poisoned the smell of poison Page 42 – exercise 6 wasn’t an old woman.’ We want to Tall man, short feet, American, middle- Road on his lips, the Open answers. know who the passenger was. red face. Long aged, beard, often blood, the writing fingernails. Probably drunk. on the wall Page 50 – exercise 5 American. He’s a cab driver. Open answer. Joseph Stangerson. in a room in the stabbed, possibly pills (one poisoned), Drebber’s secretary. Halliday Hotel poisoned? the writing on the 3 Also American. wall, blood from knife wound KEY TO THE EXERCISES KEY TO THE EXERCISES Page 61 – exercise 8 PART TWO – CHAPTER ONE Page 75 – Internet project Page 87 – exercise 4 All of these objects could be used Page 74 – exercise 1 Student’s activity. Open answers but possible adjectives except possibly a fingernail or a letter include: A T B F – they were going to find a Page 76 – exercise 4 (unless first poisoned or with new place to live.