10th Samacheer Quiz

Q1. What is distinctive about the detective in 'The Dying Detective'?

He deliberately stages an illness as part of an investigation He avoids all clues He is a doctor He leaves the case unfinished

Q2. Who was Victor Savage?

Culverton Smith's nephew Holmes's brother Watson's son Inspector's son

Q3. Who arrested Culverton Smith?

Inspector Morton Dr Watson Mrs Hudson Holmes's brother

Q4. Who wrote 'The Dying Detective'?

Arthur Conan Doyle Alphonse Daudet Rudyard Kipling Aesop

Q5. Whom did Holmes ask Watson to bring?

Culverton Smith Inspector Morton Mrs Hudson Victor Savage

Q6. Why does the detective conceal the truth about his condition?

To make the suspect reveal incriminating information To escape from the police To travel abroad To impress his friends

Q7. Who was Holmes's landlady?

Mrs Hudson Mrs Smith Mrs Watson Mrs Morton

Q8. What was inside the ivory box?

An infected sharp spring Medicine A letter A key

Q9. Why did Holmes pretend to be dying?

To trap Smith into confessing To frighten Watson To leave London To test medicine

Q10. Did Holmes really have the deadly disease?

No Yes Only for one day The story does not say