"The Dying Detective"

What is the real reason that Holmes asks Smith to turn up the light?

• It was the signal for Inspector Morton to come in the room to arrest Smith

• The room was too dark and Holmes couldn't see

• Watson confessed to the crime

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Why doesn't Holmes want Watson to come near him when he's sick?

• He doesn't want Watson to catch his disease.

• Holmes knows Watson is a doctor and would find out his scheme.

• Holmes is scared of Watson

• Holmes wants Watson to hide under the bed

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What can you infer as the reason Holmes had Watson hiding during Smith's confession?

• Watson could be a witness to the confession

• Holmes would have someone to bury him when he died.

• Smith could have a cover-up.

• So Victor Savage could come home.

What is the setting of the play?

• Sherlock Holmes' bedroom

• Victor Savages's house

• A New York City apartment

• Dr. Watson's house

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CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

What pieces of the set were vital to the plot development of the play?

• the box, the lamp, the bed

• the curtains, the box, the closet

• the box, the lamp, the curtains

• Holmes's pipe, the box, the tea set

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CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.7.3

In the play's resolution, we find out that

• Holmes's plan was to trick Smith into confessing

• Holmes dies from a tropical disease

• Victor Savage is really alive

• Dr. Watson killed Victor Savage and was framing Smith

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CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.7.3