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Arthur Conan Doyle.

Sherlock Holmes.

From

R Venkat

14, Velakkadi Koil St

Kancheepuram 2

[email protected]

13.08.2018

To

The Liasion Officer

Manitha Neyam Trust

CITNagar

Chennai 17

Sir,

Sub: Enquiry about IAS orientation programme – Reg.

I saw your advertisement in The Hindu Tamil newspaper dated 12th August, about a free seminar, in Pallavaram Govt. Hr. Sec. School. I am doing my Std. X, I cherish the dream of becoming an IAS officer. I heard the entry is free for graduates. Will you please allow me also to attend the seminar? I wish to listen to achievers and subject experts. Kindly communicate your consent through my email [email protected] com.

Thank you

Yours sincerely

P. Venkat

To

The Liasion Officer

Manitha Neyam Trust

CIT Nagar

Chennai 17

The dying Holmes had the boldness to bolt the door and order him to stay indoors till six p.m.

Holmes explained that he spoke rudely to Watson because he wanted to bring Smith there and he didn’t want Watson to know that he wasn’t ill.

Smith had killed his nephew. Holmes knew this fact. He was gathering evidence to prove it. That was why Smith sent him an infected spring to kill him.

Holmes asked Smith to turn up the gas. It was, in fact, a signal for Inspector Morton to come in and arrest Smith.

Holmes did not want Watson to go before six. He asked Watson to persuade Smith to come, to tell Smith that Holmes was dying and force Smith to come. Watson should return to Holmes’ house, before Smith’s arrival. He asked Watson to light the gas and keep it half-on.

The boy was quite fat and plump. That was why he was called Sausage.

Victor was Culverton Smith’s nephew. He had been murdered by Culverton Smith by the use of a poisonous spring.

Smith had conspired to kill Holmes by sending him a poisoned spring-box by post. Holmes did not really mean what he said. He was not ill at all. He was only laying a trap for Smith and trying to make him confess his crime.

Culverton Smith was responsible for Victor Savage’s death. The ivory box was the last piece of evidence of it.

No, Smith did not go near Holmes to examine him. He well knew what had happened and only wanted Holmes to die.

1. True

2. False

3. True

4. False

5. True

6. True

1. in favour of

2. the Devil

3. enough

4. the Volga

5. fifty

6. set

7. peasant

Correct answer is True

No, Smith did not welcome Watson calling on him. He asked his butler to tell Watson that he was not at home.

Correct answer is True

Correct answer is Pakhom

Correct answer is A trader

Man’s physical needs on this earth are not many. Yet he keeps hungering for them all his life. He never feels satisfied till he meets his end.

Correct option is (iii) land

The Devil decided to give Pakhom enough land. And by means of that land, he decided to get Pakhom into his power.

Correct answer is True

Correct option is (ii) greedy

Pakhom wanted from them their land. It was for this purpose only that he had come there.

He told Pakhom that the Bashkirs had plenty of land. It was near a river and was very fertile. They sold it at a very low price – 13,000 acres for only 1,000 roubles.

The Bashkirs were very simple people. They lived in tents. They had plenty of land. Pakhom made friends with them by giving them various gifts.

Correct answer is Leo Tolstoy

One of Pakhom’s neighbours bought fifty acres of the land. Pakhom also arranged to buy forty acres of that land.

The Bashkirs did not sell their land by acres. They sold it by the day. It meant one could have for one thousand roubles as much land as one could walk round in one day.

This stranger was a peasant. He told Pakhom that he had come from beyond the Volga. He said that the land there was very fertile. The rye sown on it grew as high as a horse.

Victor Savage is Smith’s nephew. He was murdered by Culverton Smith but was believed to be dead on the fourth day in spite of being a strong and healthy man because of an Eastern disease.

About the sin of greed.

They were very simple people.

Correct answer is Forty acres

For one thousand roubles, Pakhom could have as much land as he could walk round in a day. But there was one condition. He had to come back to the starting point before sunset.

Pakhom sold his colt and one half of his bees. He hired out one of his sons as a labourer and took his wages in advance. He also borrowed some money from his brother-in-law.

To buy some more land.

Watson did not come with Smith because Holmes had asked him to do so. Watson pretended that he had some other appointment.

1. True

2. False

3. True

4. False

5. False

6. False

Culverton’s nephew.

1. Mathew is a very busy man [true]

2. He woke up very late in the morning [True]

3. He always had lunch with his family [False] 

He always had lunch with Lalli and Lolly, his two oldest and dearest friends.

4. He exercised with Louise every day. [True]

5. He preferred handling mail by himself [True]

1. new 

2. heard 

3. course 

4. fore 

5. peace

One thousand roubles.

Both of them were sisters

Yes, they were.

Correct option is (ii) sisters

By selling his colt and half of his bees.

1. Sumatra

2. Culverton Smith

3. about his illness

4. Inspector Morton

5. infected spring

6. had killed Victor.