| 1. | What do you know about Victorian England? |
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| 2. | What do you know about Sherlock Holmes? Who wrote about Sherlock Holmes, and how many stories are there about him? |
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| 3. | Who are the Baker Street Irregulars? |
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| 4. | Who are the Amazing Zalindas? What is the name of the circus they travel with? Have you ever been to the circus? |
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| 5. | What does “Arrogance is its own curse” mean? |
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| 6. | Who visited Sherlock Holmes? How did Ozzie know who it was, and what did it mean for the Baker Street Irregulars? |
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| 7. | Describe the Castle. |
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| 8. | How is Ozzie different from the other boys? |
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| 9. | What is “A Study in Scarlet”? Why is Ozzie reading it to the other boys? |
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| 10. | Why don’t the Baker Street Irregulars like Dr. Watson? |
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| 11. | What does Sherlock Holmes notice about the boys? Do you pay close attention to details? Why or why not? |
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| 12. | What did the Baker Street Irregulars learn about the Amazing Zalindas from the other circus performers? |
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| 13. | Who are Angelina and Balina? |
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| 14. | Who is Indigo Jones? |
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| 15. | Who was watching Ozzie? Why? |
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| 16. | What is the murder weapon, and how did Wiggins find it? How did Sherlock Holmes know the rope had been cut? |
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| 17. | What did Madam Estrella see in Ozzie’s future? What clues did she and Pilar give him about the Zalindas’ death? |
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| 18. | Who is Pilar and why are the Irregulars reluctant to let her help with the investigation? |
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| 19. | What did Ozzie, Wiggins and Pilar learn from Karlov? What did the other boys learn from the clowns? |
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| 20. | Who is Orlando Vile and what does he have to do with the fall of the Amazing Zalindas? |
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| 21. | What did the Baker Street Irregulars learn from Pilar’s reading? |
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| 22. | How did Ozzie impress Sherlock Holmes? |
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| 23. | What is The Stuart Chronicle, and how does it relate to the case of the Zalindas? |
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| 24. | What was the only clue Sherlock Holmes found to explain how the Stuart Chronicle disappeared? |
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| 25. | How did Ozzie learn to copy documents? What is the real business of the Oxford Scriveners? |
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| 26. | How did Pilar find the Castle? Why does she want to help with the investigation? |
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| 27. | Who met the boys and Pilar at the docks? What was their task for the evening? |
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| 28. | What is the key to surveillance? |
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| 29. | Who orchestrated the theft of the Stuart Chronicle? Why did Sherlock Holmes know it was Moriarty, even though he’d never met him? |
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| 30. | What roles did Sherlock Holmes, Ozzie, Wiggins, Rohan and Pilar play in the attempted retrieval of the Stuart Chronicle? |
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| 31. | Do you think Moriarty really went down with the carriage? Why or why not? |
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| 32. | Who do you think the man who brought a job to Oxford Scriveners the day after the attempted retrieval was? What did he want forged? |
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| 33. | Who was Moriarty’s buyer for the Stuart Chronicle? Why did Sherlock Holmes pose as a buyer? |
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| 34. | How did Sherlock Holmes, Pilar, and the Baker Street Irregulars rescue Ozzie and the Stuart Chronicle? |
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| 35. | What is the Stuart Chronicle, really? |
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| 36. | What is Cockney rhyming slang? Try making up your own slang. |
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| 37. | What is one of the most useful things in creating a disguise? Why? |
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| 38. | Who do you think wrote this account of the case of the Amazing Zalindas? Why? |
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| 39. | What does the secret message hidden in the book say?* *PROFESSOR MORIARTY WILL RETURN |
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