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Mystery Quiz

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Define languid

a)

Slow and relaxing

b)

Occurring after death

c)

Limited

d)

Sideways

2.

Define patrimony

a)

land or property inherited from family

b)

freedom from consequences

c)

an exit or way out

d)

a building and the grounds surrounding it

3.

Impunity

a)

Lack of action, boredom

b)

Slow and relaxed

c)

Freedom from consequences

d)

Give in, yield

4.

Which word means "occurring after death"?

a)

Languid

b)

Posthumous

c)

Egress

d)

Obliquely

5.

Which word means "give in or yield"

a)

Superfluity

b)

Succumbed

c)

Premises

d)

Circumscribed

6.

Which word means "Highly or very"

a)

Eminently

b)

Inconspicuous

c)

Dowdy

d)

Mauve

7.

Define circumscribed

a)

Limited

b)

Abnormal, strange, or outside if the ordinary

c)

An exit or way out

d)

Extra, unnecessary amount

8.

Which word means "an exit or a way out"

a)

Patrimony

b)

Candor

c)

Egress

d)

Comrades

9.

Define stagnation

a)

Stillness or boredom

b)

A purplish pink color

c)

Trying not to attract attention

d)

Choked or strangled

10.

Which word means the opposite of "loud, trying to attract attention"

a)

Succumbed

b)

Impunity

c)

Throttled

d)

Inconspicuous

11.

Which word means "outside of the ordinary or abnormal"?

a)

Languid

b)

Preternatural

c)

Premises

d)

Comrades

12.

Define throttled

a)

Choked or strangled

b)

Unfashionable

c)

Sideways

d)

Obedient or attentive, submissive

13.

Define Dowdy

a)

Lack of action, boredom

b)

Limited

c)

Unfashionable

d)

Give in, yield

14.

Define mauve

a)

Occurring after death

b)

Friends or acquaintances

c)

Freedom from consequences

d)

A pale purplish pink color

15.

Which word means "extra, an unnecessary amount"

a)

Superfluous

b)

Posthumous

c)

Languid

d)

Dowdy

16.

Define Premises

a)

Friends or acquaintances

b)

Land or property inherited from one's family

c)

Extra, unnecessary amount

d)

A building and the grounds surrounding it

17.

Which word means "honesty or saying exactly what one thinks"?

a)

Candor

b)

Succumbed

c)

Mauve

d)

Comrades

18.

Define Comrades

a)

Friends or acquaintances

b)

Extra or an unnecessary amount

c)

Choked or strangled

d)

A building and the grounds surrounding it

19.

Define obliquely

a)

Servantlike and submissive

b)

Slanted or indirect

c)

Give in or yield

d)

Honesst

20.

Define obsequious

a)

Servant-like or submissive; overly attentive

b)

Outside of the ordinary; abnormal

c)

Highly or very

d)

Lack of action; boredom

21.

Who wrote "The Bloodstained Pavement"?

a)

Sherlock Holmes

b)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

c)

Agatha Christie

d)

Edgar Allan Poe

22.

Which of the following is NOT a protagonist?

a)

Dr. Watson

b)

Sherlock Holmes

c)

Joyce Lampriere

d)

M. Dupin

23.

Who wrote "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire"?

a)

Agatha Christie

b)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

c)

Sherlock Holmes

d)

Edgar Allan Poe

24.

Who wrote "The Murders at Rue Morgue"?

a)

Edgar Allan Poe

b)

Agatha Christie

c)

M. Dupin

d)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

25.

Which of the following is NOT a narrator of one of the stories?

a)

Joyce Lampriere

b)

M. Dupin

c)

An unnamed person

d)

Dr. Watson

26.

Which of the following is true of the police in each of the mystery stories we read?

a)

They always believe in the supernatural

b)

They secretly committed the crime themselves

c)

They would most likely not have solved the crime without the protagonists' help

d)

They are extremely intelligent

27.

Which of the following do the narrator of "The Murders at Rue Morgue" and M. Dupin NOT have in common?

a)

They love books

b)

They like the night time

c)

They play rugby together

d)

They live together

28.

Which of the following was NOT a red herring?

a)

The money in "The Murders at Rue Morgue"

b)

The fisherman in "The Bloodstained Pavement"

c)

The bird bow in "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire"

d)

The seemingly human voice in "The Murders at Rue Morgue"

29.

In the story “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire,” the wife starts off as the main ______ in injuring her child.

a)

Alibi

b)

Suspect

c)

Setting

d)

Protagonist

30.

Who is the narrator in “The Bloodstained Pavement”?

a)

Miss Marple

b)

M. Dupin

c)

Denis Dacre

d)

Joyce Lampriere