A study In Scarlet Chapters 1-4

In The following sentence " And the FLORID face?" florid most nearly means...

• Having a red or flushed expression

• Elaborately or complicated

• confused/lost

• Angry or frustrated

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"Leaning back in the cab, this amateur blood hound Carrolled away like a lark." What literally device did Doyle use in this text?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Allusion

• foreshadowing

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

In the first paragraph, what is the purpose of the passage?

• Background about Shelock holmes

• To show watson's fighting ability

• To show watsons background and past

• Sherlock holmes living hazards.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Compared to the Murders in The rue morgue, what character does watson mostly compare too?

• Dupin's partner

• Dupin

• sherlock holems

• mistress

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

which choice provides the best evidence to the previous question?

• "surely you are not as sure as you pretend to be of all those particulars which you gave"

• "had he a whip in his hand"

• "you wish me to come?"

• "by no means"

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

"It is simple enough as you explain," I said smiling. "you remind me of Edgar Allen Poe's Dupin. i had no idea that such individuals did exist outside of stories." the main purpose of the passage is to...

• to show how simple things are

• to show ideas

• to show Sherlock's intellectual capability

• to show foreshadowing

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6