SHERLOCK HOLMES FACT SHEET

1. What did Sherlock Holmes do for a living?

a) He wrote novels

b) He edited a magazine

c) He solved crimes

2. When and where did he make his first appearance?

a) At the beginning of the 20th century in a novel

b) At the end of the 19th century in a magazine

c) At the end of the 18th century in a short story

3. Who is Dr Watson?

a) A London publisher

b) An English author

c) The narrator of the Sherlock Holmes stories

4. Where did Holmes originally make his biggest number of appearances?

a) In books

b) In newspapers

c) In magazines

5. Dr Watson also works as Holmes' ...

a) surgeon

b) publisher

3) assistant

6. Where did Holmes live?

a) In the middle of the city of London

b) In the suburbs

c) In the country

7. Holmes solves crimes and mysteries by using ...

a) the police

b) his brain power

c) information in newspapers

8. Arthur Conan Doyle decided to kill Holmes because ...

a) he had grown fed up of writing the stories

b) the publishers didn't pay him enough money

c) readers had stopped reading the stories

9. How did Holmes die?

a) He was knocked over by a car

b) He drowned

c) He was poisoned

10. The Final Problem is the story in which Holmes ...

a) gets married

b) is murdered

c) dies

11. Why did Conan Doyle bring Holmes back into print?

a) He was paid a great deal of money

b) Readers pressurised him

c) The King of England asked him to write more stories

12. The Hound of the Baskervilles is ...

a) a short story

b) a novel

c) a poem

Answers

1. c, 2. b, 3. c, 4. c, 5. assistant, 6. a, 7. his brain power, 8. a, 9. b, 10. dies, 11. b, 12. a novel