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The person who
lives at 221B
Baker Street is
Beowulf.
Sherlock Holmes
At the beginning of
the novel, the
object Dr. Watson
is examining is a
knife
Walking Stick
Holmes sees the
reflection of the
walking stick in a
mirror
Silver Coffee Pot
The name inscribed
on the walking stick
is Beryl Garcia
James Mortimer
Holmes thinks
that the H
inscribed on the
cane stands from
helmet
Hospital
As soon as the
discussion about the
cane ends, Geoffrey
Chaucer appears at
the door.
Dr. James Mortimer
The date on the
manuscript that
Mortimer shows
Holems was
1937.
1742
The crime that Hugo
Baskerville
committed was
burglary.
kidnapping
The girl escaped by
digging a tunnel
under the floor.
Climbing down an
ivy-covered wall.
There were
rumors that Hugo
Baskerville made
a bargain with
the King
The Devil
The cause of
Hugo’s death was
a gunshot wound
His throat was ripped
out.
The cause of the
girl’s death was
decapitation.
Fear and fatigue
Holmes concludes
from Sir Charles’
footprints that he
was tiptoeing.
Running
Mortimer receives a
note that says, “As you
value your life, or your
reason, keep away
from the moor.”
Sir Henry receives
this note.
The note was
constructed from
cardboard.
Words cut from a
newspaper
The newspaper
the letters were
cut from is the
Greenville News.
The Times of London
The fact that the letters
came from this
particular newspaper
tells Holmes that the
writer was mentally
handicapped.
Well Educated
2704 is the
number of a hotel
room.
Cab
To take his min
off the case for a
while, Holmes
thought about his
girlfirend.
Art
Holmes asks the
desk clerk at the
hotel if he can
look at his shoes.
The hotel guest
registry
The two items
stolen from Sir
Henry were a new
brown glove and an
old black glove.
A new brown boot
and an old black boot
The hotel waiter
was French.
German
Sir Henry tells
Holmes his intentions
are to never to go
Baskerville Hall
again.
Return to Baskerville
Hall at the end of the
week.
Holmes sends a
telegram to Mr.
Barrymore to see
if he can read.
To see if he is
really still at
Baskerville Hall.
Sir Charles left Mr.
and Mrs. Barrymore
a million pounds
each in his will.
500 pounds each
If Sir Henry dies, as
far as anyone knows
in Ch.5, Dr. Watson
will inherit the estate
James Desmond
Holmes sends his
sister to Devonshire
to protect Sir Henry.
Dr. Watson
John Clayton was
a famous actor
Cab Driver
The man
following Sir
Henry claimed to
be Napolean
Bonaparte.
Sherlock Holmes
When Holmes says
that Beryl Stapleton
is a lady of
attractions, he means
that she is intelligent.
Physically attractive
Sir Henry speaks
with an
Australian accent.
American Accent
The escaped
convict’s name is
Charles Manson.
Selden
The crime Selden
committed was
stalking Queen
Victoria.
Murder
The noise that
startles Dr. Watson
and causes him to sit
up in bed and listen
is the sound of a car
backfiring.
A woman sobbing
When Watson chases
Stapleton down on
the moor to talk to
him, Stapleton is
carrying a suitcase.
Butterfly Net
As Watson and
Stapleton are talking,
a woman
approaches, and
Stapleton introduces
her as his mother.
Sister
The first thing
Watson notices about
Beryl Stapleton is
how short she is.
Beautiful
The name of the
Stapleton’s house is
Wuthering Heights.
Merripit House
The school where the
Stapletons taught
went out of business
because they got
caught cheating on
standardized tests.
Three boys died.
Dr. Watson refuses
to convey Beryl’s
warning to Sir Henry
unless she goes on a
date with him.
Gives him more
detail about the
reason for the
warning
Watson is especially
concerned about
whether Mr.
Frankland might be
attacked by Selden.
The Stapletons
Stapleton brings
a prehistoric skull
to dinner with
him.
Dr. Mortimer
Watson’s first suspicion
about why Barrymore is
signaling someone from
the window is that he is
arranging burglaries.
Having an affair
This suspicion is
true.
False
Selden turns out
to be Mrs.
Barrymore’s son.
Brother
Watson does not shoot
Selden as he is running
away because Mrs.
Barrymore is standing
between them.
He does not want
to shoot an
unarmed man in
the back.
Mrs. Barrymore’s
maiden name was
Stapleton.
Selden
The woman that Sir
Charles had gone
to meet at the gate
on he night of his
death was Beryl.
Laura Lyons
Laura Lyons’
father turns out
to be Selden.
Mr. Frankland
Laura cannot
have killed Sir
Charles because
she was not
strong enough.
She did not keep
the appointment
What Laura
wanted from Sir
Charles was for
him to marry her.
Money
Holmes tells
Watson that Beryl
is really
Stapleton’s
daughter.
Wife
When Holmes and
Watson find
Stapleton’s body,
the initially think he
is Mr. Barrymore.
Sir Henry
The portrait of
Hugo Baskerville
proves that
Holmes is really a
Baskerville
Stapleton
Selden used
Laura Lyons as a
tool to set up Sir
Charles to be
killed.
Stapleton
Stapleton put
rouge on the
hound to make
it look demonic
Phosphorus
Holmes kills the
hound by strangling
it.
Shooting it.
Holmes figured out
that Beryl wrote
the warning note to
Sir Henry because
of the handwriting.
Jasmine scent on the
paper.
Beryl’s maiden name
was Schmidt.
Garcia
The Stapletons met
in Guatemala
Costa Rica
Stapleton tied up his
wife on the night of his
death because he was
afraid she would kill
herself.
Tell Sir Henry the
truth.
The cause of
Stapleton’s death
was an attack by
the hound.
He drowned in
Grimpen Mire
The two visitors
that Holmes and
Watson have in Ch.
15 are Sir Henry
and Beryl Stapleton
Sir Henry and
Dr. Mortimer
Sir Henry and Dr.
Mortimer are
about to go on a
short trip to the
coast.
Long Voyage
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Stapleton was Sir
Charles’ grandson.
Nephew
Chaucer father
made leather
goods for a living
Chaucer made his
living as a
blacksmith
Chaucer’s most
famous work of
literature is called
the London Tales
In the Canterbury
Tales,the pilgrims
first meet each other
and decide to travel
together at the
Tower of London
The pilgrims decide
to entertain
themselves on the
journey murdering
random strangers
The Wife of Bath
met her fifth
husband at her
brother’s wedding
In the Wife of
Bath’s Tale, the
crime the knight
commits is purse
snatching
The King decides
to turn the knight
over to Merlin for
judging.
The sentence the
knight receives is
twenty years in
prison
The knight sees a
group of women in
the woods, and
they are dissecting
a cat
The old woman says
she can help the
knight by hiding him
so the queen can’t
find him
According to the old
woman, what women
want most is a
wealthy husband
The request the old
woman makes of the
knight is for him to
marry her sister
The knight does not
want to grant the old
woman’s request
because he is already
married to someone
else
The answer the
old woman gives
is that women
want fine clothes
The knight chooses
for the old woman
to remain ugly, but
be faithful
The word
renaissance means
born in France
The beginning date
for the renaissance
is 1798
The ending date
for the
Renaissance is
1937
The Renaissance
began in
Guatemala
The rediscovery of
Russian literature
was a beginning
point for the
Renaissance
One of the goals
of humanism was
to reconcile
Christianity and
Buddhism
The two famous
humanists we studied
were Thomas More
and William of
Normandy
All art and drama
in the
Renaissance was
on religious
subjects
Pablo Picasso
painted the Mona
Lisa
Raphael painted
the ceiling of the
Sistine Chapel in
Rome
Vincent Van Gogh
created famous
sculptures of
Moses and David
A new translation
of the Bible into
Russian was done
in 1611
This translation
was authorized
by Queen
Elizabeth I
Copernicus
published a
geocentric theory
of the solar
system in 1543
The first astronomer
to study the heavens
with a telescope was
Tarmack of Vulcan
The first wife of
King Henry VIII
was Catherine of
Seville
Catherine of
Aragon was
beheaded
Henry broke
England away
from the
Presbyterian
Church
Catherine of
Aragon had been
married to
Henry’s brother
George
Henry’s daughter
from his first
marriage was
named Henrietta
nd
2
Henry’s
wife
was Anne
Hathaway
Anne Boleyn died
of tuberculosis
Anne was
accused of
cheating with
Henry’s brother
Anne Boleyn’s
child was named
Frances
rd
3
Henry’s
wife
was named Jane
Hathaway
Jane Seymour
was beheaded
Jane Seymour’s
child was named
Charles
th
4
Henry’s
was
Anne of Denver
th
4
Henry’s
wife
was beheaded
th
5
Henry’s
wife
was Catherine
Jones
Catherine Howard
was divorced and
given Anne
Boleyn’s house
Mary Tudor’s
nickname was
Mary the Kind
Elizabeth’s
nickname was
Babbling Betsey
Queen Victoria
followed Queen
Elizabeth as
monarch
James I lost the
English Civil War
and was
beheaded
Martin Luther ruled
England during the
period of time when
the Puritans were in
charge
In Shakespeare’s
Sonnet 130, the
girl’s hair is
described as
straight and blond
In Shakespeare’s
Sonnet 130, the
girl’s skin is
described as snowy
white
At the end of
Shakespeare’s Sonnet
130, the narrator
concludes that he
should break up with
his girlfriend
The movable type
printing press was
invented by
Thomas Edison in
1455
Donald Trump
printed the first
book in English
The invention of the
printing press and
cheap paper caused
a decrease in literacy
rates
William
Shakespeare was
born in Paris,
France
William
Shakespeare was
born in 1343
William
Shakespeare died
in 1914
William
Shakespeare’s
father made his
living as a taxi
driver
William
Shakespeare’s
father almost went
to jail for murder
William
Shakespeare’s
wife was named
Jane Hathaway
When Shakespeare
and his wife got
married, he was 14
When Shakespeare
and his wife got
married, she was
72
Shakespeare
moved to London
in order to avoid
being arrested for
debt
Shakespeare’s
most famous
theater was the
Rose
The cost to be a
groundling was 10
pence
Men’s roles in
Shakespeare’s
time were played
by women
Writing that
ridicules human
weakness, vice, or
folly is called epic
poetry
In the Gulliver’s
Travels movie,
Gulliver has been
gone from home
for 20 years
Bigenders and
Liliputians are at
war over the
proper way to
make toast
Gulliver becomes a
hero to the
Liliputians by
stealing the
Bigenders tanks
Gulliver
embarrasses the
empress by
proposing marriage
to her
Gulliver is found
by a
Brobdingnagian
policeman
The
Brobdingnagians
are 200 feet tall
The farmer’s
daughter who takes
care of Gulliver is
named Lucy
Gulliver has a
crush on Glum
Glum is six years
old
The queen’s giant
is mean to
Gulliver because
he is jealous
Laputa is a flying
horse
Gulliver predicts
the end of the
world
The old man is
mashing pumpkins
in order to extract
sunlight from them
Struddlebugs live
for 400 years
Gulliver declines to
be a Struddlebug
because he does
not want to be deaf
Gulliver tells us that
Struddlebugs with
gray hair are more
aggressive than the
others
Houynms are
civilized sheep
The Houynms exile
Gulliver because
they decide he is a
Liliputian
Back home in
England, Gulliver
is put in jail
Mary proves that
Gulliver is telling
the truth by
producing a tiny
sheep
Gulliver likes to
visit the stable
because he likes
to eat hay
Gulliver says
what he cannot
stand most is
tacky behavior
Journal of the
Plague Year was
written by
Charles Dickens
Journal of the
Plague Year is
written in
person
nd
2
When the piper
awakens, he is
under a pile of
dirty laundry
Samuel Pepys
becomes angry
with his wife
because she is
cheating on him
The disaster
which struck the
city of London
on2/11/1666 was
a terrorist attack
The Great Fire of
London began
when a cow
kicked over a
lantern
The Humber
River finally
stopped the fire
from spreading
further south.
Pepys intended
for as many
people as
possible to read
his diary
William
Wordsworth is
the most famous
Scottish poet
The Romantic
poet who died
from tuberculosis
is Percy Shelley
The Romantic
poet who
drowned was
Coleridge
The Romantic poet
who was addicted
to opium was
Robert Burns
The Romantic
poet who lived
the longest was
Keats
Robert Burns
wrote a poem
addressed to a
cow
Romanticism says
that humans
should dominate
the rest of nature
Romanticism
emphasizes logic
and order
Romanticism
emphasizes very
formal language
The novel
Frankenstein was
written by
George Eliot
In “My Last
Duchess,” the
narrator and his
guests are looking at
a painting of his
horse
The poem implies
that the duchess
died from a
snake bite
“My Last Duchess”
was written by
Elizabeth Barrett
Browning
At the end of the
poem “Ulysses,”
Ulysses decides to
divorce his wife and
marry a younger
woman
In “Betrothed,”
Maggie tells the
narrator he must
choose between
her and his family
Maggie
communicates
her ultimatum in
a text message
The “god” the
speaker says he
serves is Allah
The speaker has
been in love with
Maggie for 10
years
The speaker has
been smoking
cigars for seven
weeks
When the speaker
talks about brides in
his harem, he is
really talking about
Maggie’s multiple
personalities
At the end of the
poem, the
speaker chooses
Maggie over his
cigars
“Betrothed” was
written by Alfred,
Lord Tennyson
Sigried Sassoon
and Wilfred Owen
both wrote poems
about the Vietnam
War
Dylan Thomas
wrote a famous
elegy for his
mother
Dylan Thomas’s
elegy is called “Do
Not Die Easily”
Dylan Thomas
died from
tuberculosis
Dylan Thomas
was from Ireland