The Secret of the Old Clock, Chapter XVIII. Notifying the Police quiz

Questions and answers

1. 1

   Question 1. Where does Nancy go first to report the robbery?

   • To a farmhouse with a telephone
   • To the Topham house in River Heights
   • Correct answer: To the jail in Melborne
   • To Camp Avondale to find Helen

   She drives to Melborne, the nearest town, and Jeff directs her to the jail.

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2. 2

   Question 2. What clue helps Nancy tell the police which way the robbers went?

   • Jeff remembers the license number of the moving van
   • Correct answer: She saw the same tire tracks at a crossroads heading north
   • A neighbor near the bungalow saw the truck pass
   • The robbers dropped a lamp from the van at the corner

   She studied the tire pattern at the bungalow and spotted the same tracks where the truck turned north.

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   Question 3. Why does Nancy think the robbers took the road to Garwin?

   • A sign at the fork pointed the way to a big moving company in town
   • Jeff told her the stranger lived in Garwin
   • It is the only paved road in the county
   • Correct answer: Garwin is a large city where they could sell the stolen goods

   She reasons that thieves would head for a large city to dispose of the stolen goods.

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4. 4

   Question 4. What do Nancy and the marshal decide at the fork?

   • Correct answer: To split up and each take a road
   • To give up for the night
   • To follow the farmer's directions
   • To wait together for more police

   Nancy proposes that the marshal take the right-hand road while she heads for Garwin.

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   Question 5. What does the farmer with the team of horses tell Nancy?

   • That the robbers stopped and asked him for directions to the city
   • That he saw the truck turn into the Black Horse
   • Correct answer: That a truck passed about twenty minutes ago and almost ran him into a ditch
   • That no vehicles have come down the Garwin road all afternoon

   He says a truck passed about twenty minutes earlier and the road hog tried to push him into a ditch.

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   Question 6. Why does Nancy turn back toward the roadhouse?

   • Correct answer: She hasn't passed any crossroads, so the robbers may have stopped there
   • The marshal drives up behind her and signals for her to turn back at once
   • She sees the van parked outside it
   • She has run low on gasoline

   She hasn't caught the van and hasn't passed a cross road since talking to the farmer, so she suspects the roadhouse.

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   Question 7. What does Nancy see through the roadhouse window?

   • Jeff Tucker talking with the stranger
   • The marshal searching the rooms
   • The Crowley clock on a shelf
   • Correct answer: The three robbers drinking at a table

   She sees the three men who robbed the Topham bungalow seated around a table.

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   Question 8. What does 'obliterated' mean in: 'the tire marks had been obliterated by other vehicles'?

   • Copied onto paper
   • Correct answer: Wiped out completely
   • Made much deeper and clearer
   • Painted over with white lines

   Other cars had driven over the tracks, so no clue was left at the fork.

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   Question 9. What does 'corroborate' mean in: 'to corroborate what she had said, she called Jeff for his version'?

   • To write down in a notebook
   • To argue against
   • Correct answer: To confirm or back up
   • To repeat word for word to the marshal

   Jeff's story backs up what Nancy told the police.

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    Question 10. Which of these events happen in Chapter 18?

    • Nancy tells the marshal about the tire tracks she noticed.

      Happened

    • Jeff Tucker rides along in the police car.

      Didn't happen

    • A farmer says a truck passed about twenty minutes earlier.

      Happened

    • Nancy finds the moving van parked on the road to Garwin.

      Didn't happen

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