ACTIVITY ON THE SHORT STORY A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA BY SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

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1.Answer the following questions about Chapter 1.

a) Why did Dr Watson visit Holmes?

b) What did Holmes show Watson when he arrived at his flat?
c) What did the letter say? What happened then?
d) What did the man look like?
e) What did he say his name was?
f) Who was he really?
g) Why did he need Holmes’s help?
h) Did Holmes agree to help him?

2. Now, answer the following questions about Chapter 2.

a) Where did Holmes go the following day?

b) How was he dressed?
c) Why did he do that?
d) What did he discover about Irene Adler?
e) What did Holmes ask Watson to do at Briony Lodge?
f) Did Watson accept Holmes’s request?

3. Read Chapter 3 and put these sentences into the right order.

(a) There was a fight.

(b) People carried Holmes into Irene’s house.

(c) Holmes found out where the photo was.

(d) A young man passed by Holmes and Watson and greeted Holmes.

(e) Irene Adler’s taxi arrived.

(f) Holmes told Watson that that was not a real fight.

(g) Holmes and Watson started to walk to Baker Street.

(h) Holmes, who wore different clothes and a hat, helped Irene.

(f) Watson threw the smoke stick into Irene’s house and shouted ‘Fire!’.

4. Chapter 4: Answer the following questions

a) Who went to Irene’s house the following day and why?

b) Were Irene and her husband there?
c) Was the photograph of both the King and her in the cupboard of the living room?
d) What did she leave instead?
e) What did Irene say in the letter he left for the Holmes?
f) Who was more intelligent Irene or Holmes?
g) What did Holmes ask the King to give him?