WorksheetsMystery Quiz
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 18mins
Define languid
Slow and relaxing
Occurring after death
Limited
Sideways
Define patrimony
land or property inherited from family
freedom from consequences
an exit or way out
a building and the grounds surrounding it
Impunity
Lack of action, boredom
Slow and relaxed
Freedom from consequences
Give in, yield
Which word means "occurring after death"?
Languid
Posthumous
Egress
Obliquely
Which word means "give in or yield"
Superfluity
Succumbed
Premises
Circumscribed
Which word means "Highly or very"
Eminently
Inconspicuous
Dowdy
Mauve
Define circumscribed
Limited
Abnormal, strange, or outside if the ordinary
An exit or way out
Extra, unnecessary amount
Which word means "an exit or a way out"
Patrimony
Candor
Egress
Comrades
Define stagnation
Stillness or boredom
A purplish pink color
Trying not to attract attention
Choked or strangled
Which word means the opposite of "loud, trying to attract attention"
Succumbed
Impunity
Throttled
Inconspicuous
Which word means "outside of the ordinary or abnormal"?
Languid
Preternatural
Premises
Comrades
Define throttled
Choked or strangled
Unfashionable
Sideways
Obedient or attentive, submissive
Define Dowdy
Lack of action, boredom
Limited
Unfashionable
Give in, yield
Define mauve
Occurring after death
Friends or acquaintances
Freedom from consequences
A pale purplish pink color
Which word means "extra, an unnecessary amount"
Superfluous
Posthumous
Languid
Dowdy
Define Premises
Friends or acquaintances
Land or property inherited from one's family
Extra, unnecessary amount
A building and the grounds surrounding it
Which word means "honesty or saying exactly what one thinks"?
Candor
Succumbed
Mauve
Comrades
Define Comrades
Friends or acquaintances
Extra or an unnecessary amount
Choked or strangled
A building and the grounds surrounding it
Define obliquely
Servantlike and submissive
Slanted or indirect
Give in or yield
Honesst
Define obsequious
Servant-like or submissive; overly attentive
Outside of the ordinary; abnormal
Highly or very
Lack of action; boredom
Who wrote "The Bloodstained Pavement"?
Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Agatha Christie
Edgar Allan Poe
Which of the following is NOT a protagonist?
Dr. Watson
Sherlock Holmes
Joyce Lampriere
M. Dupin
Who wrote "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire"?
Agatha Christie
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes
Edgar Allan Poe
Who wrote "The Murders at Rue Morgue"?
Edgar Allan Poe
Agatha Christie
M. Dupin
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Which of the following is NOT a narrator of one of the stories?
Joyce Lampriere
M. Dupin
An unnamed person
Dr. Watson
Which of the following is true of the police in each of the mystery stories we read?
They always believe in the supernatural
They secretly committed the crime themselves
They would most likely not have solved the crime without the protagonists' help
They are extremely intelligent
Which of the following do the narrator of "The Murders at Rue Morgue" and M. Dupin NOT have in common?
They love books
They like the night time
They play rugby together
They live together
Which of the following was NOT a red herring?
The money in "The Murders at Rue Morgue"
The fisherman in "The Bloodstained Pavement"
The bird bow in "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire"
The seemingly human voice in "The Murders at Rue Morgue"
In the story “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire,” the wife starts off as the main ______ in injuring her child.
Alibi
Suspect
Setting
Protagonist
Who is the narrator in “The Bloodstained Pavement”?
Miss Marple
M. Dupin
Denis Dacre
Joyce Lampriere
