This document contains 120 multiple choice questions about the plot details and characters from Arthur Conan Doyle's novel "The Sign of Four". The questions are divided into 12 chapters and cover details like characters' names, locations, objects, times, descriptions and events from the story.

1. The Sign of Four – Test Questions
Chapter1: The Science of Deduction
1. How manytimesa day doesSherlocktake Cocaine?
2. What isthe name of the narrator (Holmes’companion)
3. What isthe name of the brochure that the narrator published?
4. What streetdoes SherlockHolmeslive on?
5. What doesHolmessaythe three qualitiesnecessaryforthe ideal detective are?
6. How doesSherlockknowthatWatsonsenta telegram?
7. How doesSherlockdescribeWatson’seldestbrother?
8. What isit customaryfor pawnbrokersinEngland todo whentheytake a watch?
9. What doesSherlocksayhe cannot live without?
10. What isthe name of the youngladythat comesto see Sherlock?
Chapter2: The Statementof the Case
11. How isMary Morstan described?(one sentence)
12. What isthe name of Mary Morstan’semployer?
13. Where doesMary’s fatheraskher to come and meethim?
14. What date didher fatherdisappear?
15. Where didMajor Sholtolive?
16. What doesMary receive inthe postonce a year?
17. Where doesthe letterMary receivedtellhertogo andwait?
18. What was “the mostwinningwoman”Sherlockeverknewhangedfor?
19. How oldisMary?
20. How doesWatsondescribe himself?
Chapter3: In Questof a Solution
21. What time doesSherlockarrive backhome?
22. What date didMajor Sholtodie?
23. What doesMiss Morstan arrive in?
24. What does Sherlocktake withhimwhenhe andWatsonleave?
25. What monthdoesthe story take place in?
26. What doesthe strangerask Mary to “give herword”on?
27. How doesWatsontry to “cheerand amuse”Mary on theirjourney?
28. Name three of the streetnamesthat Sherlockmentionsontheirjourney.
29. Where doestheircab stop?
30. What colourturban isworn bythe man whoanswersthe door?

2. Chapter4: The Story of the Bald-headedMan
31. What doesThaddeusSholtoaskWatsonto do? ‘have youyourstethoscope’
32. What doeshe offerMary to drink?Glassof chianti
33. Who doesSholtosaytheywill needtogoto Norwoodtosee? See brotherbartholomew
34. What was one of Major John Sholto’sfears? A woodenlegman
35. What doesMajor Sholtotell hissonstogive to Mary? Fair share of the agra treasure
36. How didArthurMorstan die? Weakheart
37. Whichcharacter encouragesSholtotocoverup Morstan’sdeath? Lal chowder
38. What were the wordswrittenonthe piece of paperfoundinMajor Sholto’sroom? The sign
of the four
39. What sort of hat doesSholtoputon before leavingthe house? Rabbitskincapwithhanging
lappets
40. What isthe value of the jewels? Notlessthanhalf amillionsterlings
Chapter5: The Tragedyof PondicherryLodge
41. What was the highstone wall surroundingPondicherryLodge toppedwith? Brokenglass
42. What isthe name of the manwho unlocksthe door? McMurdo
43. What isthe housekeeper’sname? mrsbernstone
44. Why isthe housekeepersoupset?
45. What ishangingon the rightside of the passagewayatthe top of the thirdflightof stairs?
Great picture inindiantapestry
46. What do HolmesandWatsonsee throughthe keyhole? ‘somethingdevilish’
47. Where do theyfindBartholomewSholto? Hangingfromthe ceiling
48. What doesHolmesdiscoverinBartholomew Sholto’sear?
49. What time didThaddeusSholtoleave hisbrotherthe nightbefore?
50. What doesHolmestell Sholtotodo? Go to the police
Chapter6: SherlockHolmesGivesaDemonstration
51. Why doesHolmestell Watsontositinthe corner? So hisfootprintsdon’tcomplicatematters
52. What doesHolmesfindaprintof on the windowsillandinthe room? A foot
53. “Whenyou have eliminatedthe impossible,whateverremains…”finishHolmes’sentence.
Howeverimpropable
54. How didthe intrudergetintothe room? Hole in the roof
55. What animal doesWatsoncompare Holmesto? Bird
56. What doesWatsonsuggestcausedSholto’sdeath?
57. Who isMr AthelnyJones?
58. What isthe name of the manwiththe woodenleg? Jonathonsmall
59. Where doesHolmesaskWatson togo once he has takenMissMorston home?
60. Who isToby? The dog

3. Chapter7: The Episode of the Barrel
61. How manydogs doesMr Shermanthreatentoset onWatson?
62. How isMr Shermandescribed?
63. What time isit whenWatsonarrivesbackat PondicherryLodge?
64. What isthe objectthatHolmesfindsonthe roof?
65. Where doesTobyleadHolmesandWatsonto?
66. How manyhourshead start didJonathanSmall andhisassociate have?
67. Why didJonathanSmall notgetthe treasure?
68. What doesHolmesthinkJonathanSmall’sassociate lookslike?
69. WhenHolmestakesouthisrevolver,how manychambersdoeshe load?
70. What didthe air around the barrelssmell of?
Chapter8: The BakerStreetIrregulars
71. How doesHolmesknowthatTobyis now followingthe correctscent?
72. What doesJack sayhe wouldlike more thanashilling?
73. What isthe name of the SteamLaunchHolmesisenquiringabout?
74. What colourshas the boat beenpainted?
75. What isthe name of the newspaperthe Watsonreadsareportof the crime in?
76. Who are the ‘BakerStreetIrregulars?’
77. What will the rewardbe forthe boy whofindsthe boat?
78. How dothe massacresconductedbythe aboriginesof the AndamanIslandsend?
79. How doesHolmeshelpWatsongettosleep?
80. Who doesWatsondreamabout?
Chapter9: A Break inthe Chain
81. On whose behalf doesMissMorstonfeel anxious?
82. What twoitemsdidHolmesleave onhischair?
83. How far will the search-partyforthe boatworkup to?
84. How didWatsonknowthat Holmeswasstill conductingexperimentsinthe earlyhoursof the
morning?
85. What colouris the scarf Holmesiswearingwhenhe leaves?
86. What isMordecai Smith’ssoncalled?
87. What time didthe doorbell ringat221B BakerStreet?
88. What doesthe telegramHolmessendstoJonessay?
89. Who isthe old manwho appearsat the HolmesandWatson’shome?
90. What isHolmesplanningonservingfordinner?

4. Chapter10: The Endof the Islander
91. Name twoof the subjects Holmesdiscussesoverdinner.
92. What time doesthe cab arrive to take themto WestminsterWharf?
93. What marks the boat Holmes,WatsonandJonestake as a police boat?
94. What doesa statesmansay“a change of work”is?
95. What were the twoplacesthat JonathanSmall andhisassociate hadno doubtarrangedto
go?
96. How didtheyavoida collisionwithatugboat?
97. Where were HolmesandCo.whentheywere three hundredpacesbehindthe Aurora?
98. Why doesthe wooden-leggedmangetstuck?
99. Where are the bonesof the Islander?
100. What wouldhave happenedif HolmesandWatsonhadnot shotat the Islander?
Chapter11: The GreatAgra Treasure
101. What isthe name of the manwho wasworkingwithJonathanSmall?
102. Where doesJonathanSmall sayhe islikelytospendthe secondhalf of his life?
103. What was the name of the vessel thatSmall wouldtake fromGravesendtothe Brazils?
104. Where doesWatsonget off the boat?
105. How longisthe drive to Cecil Forrester’shouse?
106. What doesMary do whenshe hearsWatson’sfootsteps?
107. What doesWatsonuse to break openthe box of treasure?
108. What isin the box?
109. Why doesWatsonsay “ThankGod!” once the box has beenopened?
110. What doesWatsonmeanwhenhe says “Whoeverhadlosta treasure,Iknew that nightI
had gainedone”?
Chapter12: The Strange Storyof JonathanSmall
111. What didSmall dowiththe treasure?
112. Where wasSmall born?
113. How didSmall lose hisleg?
114. What happenedtoDawson’swife?
115. What name did the pretendmerchanttravel under?
116. How did the merchantdie?
117. How manyrubieswere inthe box of treasure?
118. Whichcharacter didSmall ask foradvice aboutthe treasure?
119. How didSmall andTonga meet?
120. Why can’t Holmescongratulate Watsononhisupcomingmarriage?