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Understanding the Play
A. Answer the following questions in brief:
1. Why was Soames upset?
2. How did Soames conclude that the papers had been tampered with by
someone?
3. Why did Holmes ask all the three students to give him a pencil?
4. How did Bannister help Gilchrist? Why did he do so?
5. Why did Gilchrist decide to skip the examination?
Answers
Answer:
1.Mr soames was upset as someone had copied the scholarship examination question papers. He was worried as A large sum of money was at stake and a wrong man may gain advantage over it
2.Soames concluded that the scholarship exam papers had been tampered with, by someone as there were pencil shavings on the table and pencil trace marks on the paper which was under the toppest one.
3.Holmes asked the three students to give him their pencils because Holmes found some pieces of evidence in the office of Mr. Soames such as shreds of a pencil and a broken tip of a lead. So, Holmes asked them their pencils to know whose pencil shreds were they and who is the culprit.
4.Bannister had collapsed in the chair to hide Gilchrist's gloves, which he saw had been left on the chair. Then Bannister, who had known Gilchrist since his childhood, helped him to escape.
5.Gilchrist decided to skip the examination because Bannister explained to him that what you are doing is wrong. He talked to him as a father and made him understand that what he is doing wrong