A case of identity

Literature and speaking test!

By Allison Obando

A case of identity

Let's read it together.

Multiple Choice

Who welcomed Miss Mary Sutherland?

• Watson

• The boy in buttons

• Sherlock Holmes

• Nobody

Multiple Choice

“Do you not find,” he said, “that with your short sight it is a little trying to do so much typewriting?”

Mr. Holmes is he talking about?

• He talks about the numbers.

• He talks about the letters.

• He talks about the words.

• He talks about the a man.

Multiple Choice

“I did at first,” she answered, “but now I know where the letters are without looking.”

Miss Mary Sutherland refers to...

• listening

• reading

• sending letters

• typewriting

Fill in the Blanks

Then, suddenly realising the full purport of his words...

The word PURPORT means

Multiple Choice

When you read:

Then, suddenly realising the full purport of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face.

You know the woman is...

• weird

• happy

• angry

• astonished

Fill in the Blanks

Why Miss Mary Sutherland said

“You’ve heard about me, Mr. Holmes,”?

Multiple Choice

Who said “it is my business to know things."

• Miss Mary Sutherland

• Holmes

• Watson

• The boy in buttons

Fill in the Blanks

Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others overlook.

OVERLOOK meas...

Multiple Choice

“I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as much for me.

• Mrs. Etherege is dead.

• Mrs. Etherege´s husband is dead.

• Mrs. Etherege´s husband was found by Holmes.

• Mrs. Etherege was found by Holmes.

Multiple Choice

"I’m not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in my own right."

Miss Mary Sutherland is...

• asking for money.

• rich.

• not rich, but she can afford some expenses.

• rich, but she can' afford some expenses.

Multiple Choice

“Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?” asked Sherlock Holmes, with his fingertips together and his eyes to the ceiling.

• She did bang out of the house.

• She did not bang out of the house

• She is buying something.

Multiple Choice

“Yes, I did bang out of the house,” she said, “for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. Windibank—that is, my father—took it all.

The easy way means...

• a shortcut

• the relaxed way

• an easy walking

• to take a walk

Multiple Choice

He would not go to the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done.

• Miss Mary Sutherland's father wanted to go to the police.

• Miss Mary Sutherland's father didn't want to go to the police.

• Miss Mary Sutherland's father wanted to go with Holmes to solve the problem.

• Miss Mary Sutherland's father wanted to do anything.

Multiple Choice

“Your father,” said Holmes, “your stepfather, surely, since the name is different.”

• They are close family.

• He meets Miss Mary Sutherland

• He's Miss Mary Sutherland's stepfather.

• He's Miss Mary Sutherland's father.

Multiple Choice

I call him father, though it sounds funny, too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself.”

• He's younger than her.

• He's older than her.

• He's a friend of her.

• They are same ages.

Fill in the Blanks

Father was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the foreman;

FOREMAN measn...

Multiple Choice

but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. They got £4700 for the goodwill and interest, which wasn’t near as much as father could have got if he had been alive.”

• Miss Mary Sutherland's stepfather is a traveller.

• Miss Mary Sutherland's stepfather is a traveller in bussiness.

• Miss Mary Sutherland's stepfather is a traveller in wines.

Multiple Choice

I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary

• Holmes was paying carefully attention.

• Holmes was talking to Watson.

• Holmes wasn't interested in that case.

• Holmes thinks it is an easy case.

Fill in the Blanks

“Your own little income,” he asked, “does it come out of the business?”

INCOME means...

Open Ended

What do you think that is the main idea of the previous reading?

Open Ended

Who do you think that is the principal character of the previous reading?

Open Ended

What do you think about the reading?