SH: The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle RFQs
Directions: Please record your answers in your reading composition book. You must
restate the question in your answer and provide evidence along with the PPL (page,
paragraph, and line).
1. Why does Mr. Peterson wish to find the owner of the hat/billycock?
2. Why would the man leave the goose and the hat behind, after Mr. Peterson, a police
officer, breaks up the fight between the men?
3. How does Holmes deduce the owner of the billycock/gentleman’s hat, and how is this
man connected to the case?
4. Why does Sherlock Holmes choose to wager with the owner of the Alpah Inn, and what
information is Holmes searching for?
5. Why does the author make Mr. Baker innocent, and how does it create more mystery for
the story?
6. Why is James Ryder a “red herring” in this story, and why was it so easy to frame him for
the theft of the blue carbuncle?