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Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
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What does Mortimer believe the hound to be?
Non-existent
A puppet
A real animal
A supernatural beast
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What literary tradition does the story take on?
Epistolary literature
The Gothic
Science fiction
Modernism
3
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What quality do Henry's servants demonstrate?
Rebelliousness
Docility
Murderousness
Slyness
4
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What makes up most of the 18th-century manuscript presented at the opening of the story?
The Baskerville curse
A scientific theory
A theological treatise
The Baskerville family tree
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What is a classic of the mystery/detective motif used prominently in Hound of the Baskervilles?
A femme fatale
A Macguffin
A red herring
A gun
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