Young Sherlock Holmes Questions & Answers

Hi Everyone!! This article will share Young Sherlock Holmes Questions & Answers.

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Young Sherlock Holmes Questions & Answers

Question 1: Choose the correct option:

Holmes was throwing away the violin because he could not master it in three days. This might suggest that he was

(a) angry
(b) eager
(c) clever
(d) impatient

Answer: (d) impatient

Question 2: How did Sherlock Holmes find out

(a) the name of the newcomer?

Answer: He had read the name tag, ‘J. Watson’ on his mattress, and selected the most common name starting with the alphabet ‘J’.

(b) where the boy came from?

Answer: The style of the boy’s shoes were only seen in the North of England so, from this, he guessed that the boy had come from the North of England.

(c) what his father’s profession was?

Answer: The boy was carrying ‘The Hunter Encyclopedia of Disease’, a handbook available only to physicians. So Holmes deduced that as he was too young to have attended medical school himself, it must have been given to him by as adult who was close to him, who must have been his father who was obviously a doctor.

(d) what the boy did in his leisure time?

Answer: The middle finger of the boy’s left hand had a callus, which was a sign of a writer. So, he deduced that the boy spent his leisure time in writing.

(e) that the boy was fond of custard tarts?

Answer: The stain of yellow custard on the boy’s collar and his round appearance both led Holmes to conclude that the boy was fond of eating custard tarts.

Question 3: Which of Holmes’ guesses was wrong? Was his guess terribly wrong?

Answer: He made a mistake in calling him James instead of John. No, he was not terribly wrong in his guess.

Question 4: Choose the correct option.

Holmes refers to Watson as fat and round. This shows that he is not very careful with his manners. Another thing which suggests the same is:

(a) Holmes wanted to learn the violin in three days.
(b) He refers to Watson as ‘the new boy’.
(c) He goes out of the room in the end.
(d) He does not introduce himself to Watson when the two meet.

Answer: (d) He does not introduce himself to Watson when the two meet.

Question 5: Which of the following words do you think Watson would have used to describe Holmes after their first meeting? Why?

Answer:

Rude because Holmes called Watson fat.

Observant because he could tell so much just from the observations that he had made.

Clever and intelligent because he was so accurate in his deductions.

Impatient – he was throwing away his violin because he had not been able to learn to play it after only three days.

So, these were the Questions & Answers.