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Grade 4 The Blue Diamond Revsion Chapter 1 and 2 VideoMrs. Ma

The document contains questions about a case Holmes is working on involving an old hat found by Peterson and a missing diamond belonging to the Countess of Morcar. Holmes uses clues from the hat and goose ticket to deduce information about the hat's owner, Mr. Baker, and places advertisements to try to locate him. It also provides background details on suspects and events related to the stolen diamond.

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Grade 4 The Blue Diamond Revsion Chapter 1 and 2 VideoMrs. Ma

The document contains questions about a case Holmes is working on involving an old hat found by Peterson and a missing diamond belonging to the Countess of Morcar. Holmes uses clues from the hat and goose ticket to deduce information about the hat's owner, Mr. Baker, and places advertisements to try to locate him. It also provides background details on suspects and events related to the stolen diamond.

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Answer the following questions.

1. What was Mr Holmes’s


address?
221B Baker Street

2. What was Holmes working on


when Dr Watson came to pay him a
visit?
an old hat
3. Who got to eat the “good fat
Christmas goose” ?
Peterson’s family

4. What do the letters “H.B.”


mean? Where can they be
found?
Henry Baker – the hat and the
ticket (goose’s left leg)
5. Why did Holmes believe that the owner
of the hat was an “intelligent man”?

The size of the hat was big which meant a


big brain.

6. Give one reason why Holmes believed


the owner of the hat was poor?
He didn’t buy a new hat.

7. Why did Holmes say that the hat


owner’s wife didn’t “love him anymore”?
The hat was dirty.
8. How did Holmes know that the
hat owner was married?
There was a Mr and Mrs Baker on
the goose ticket.

9. Why did Peterson come to


Holmes ?
To give him the hat and the goose
and tell him how he got them.
10. How did Holmes know about the Countess’s stolen
diamond?
The newspaper

11. How much money would the Countess give Peterson if he


returned her diamond ?
1000 pounds

12. When was the diamond stolen?


Monday, 22nd December. 1886

13. Write down the date of the newspaper “stolen diamond”


advertisement.
Friday, 27th December. 1886

14. In which newspaper was the news of the stolen diamond


written?
The Times
15. Who did the police suspect to be the thief?
What did he do for a living?

John Horner
carpenter

16. Why was the suspect in the Countess’s rooms?


To fix the window

17. Who are J. Ryder and C. Cusack?

Ryder was the assistant manager of the


Cosmopolitan Hotel.
Cusack was the Countess’s maid.
19. What is “strange”
about Mr Ryder’s
words ?

a. How did he know


that the Countess
had a diamond???
b. How did he know
it was in the box???
20. How did Holmes decide to find Mr Baker?

He decided to advertise in the newspaper.

21. What made Holmes even more sure that Mr


Baker would find out about the advertisement ?

Mr Baker’s name was in the advertisement, so his


friends would find it and tell him.

22. How did Holmes make sure that Mr Baker would


see the advertisement?
He told Peterson to put the advertisement in every
newspaper.
Challenges!!!

1. How many smoking pipes


does Holmes have?

2. Circle them in the picture.


3. Who is
this man?
Do you have the skills of a detective yourself???

4. What’s wrong with picture 1?

5. Why does Peterson forget to take off his hat inside


Holmes’s study?

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