False
False
False
False
False
B. Complete the table based on the information from the text.S.No
Holme’s Findings
Clues
1.
Mr. Holmes found the tunnel.
Cellar was behind the shop.
2.
Mr. Spaulding dug the tunnel.
Mr. Spaulding’s trousers were dirty.
3.
The tunnel was made to get into the bank’s strong room.
The Bank is at the back of the shop.
4.
Spaulding could be the thief.
Happy to work for half wages.
C. Answer the following questions.
Jabez Wilson was disturbed very much as someone had been playing a practical joke on him. He met Holmes to find a solution to his problem.
Vincent Spaulding is the assistant of Wilson. He is also known as John Clay. He works in Wilson’s pawnshop for half-wage in order to rob the bank by making a tunnel from the pawnshop to the stoned floor of the Bank. Finally, he is caught by Mr. Holmes.
Spaulding spent a lot of time in the cellar to make a tunnel connecting the pawnshop of Mr. Wilson and the bank.
Wilson was hired to copy the Encyclopaedia because the men with red hair could apply to that job.
Holmes suspected that there was a cellar at the back of the pawn shop connecting to the Bank room. He along with Jones waited at the Bank room to catch the thief red-handed when they came through the stoned floor.
D. Based on your reading of the text complete the pyramid by arranging the sequence in the correct order.Holmes found the tunnel from the cellar to the bank’s strong room.
Wilson was assigned to copy the encyclopedia.
Wilson asked Sherlock Holmes for help.
Wilson got the job in The Red-Headed League.
Spaulding and Ross were caught by the famous detective.
One day he found the notice that ‘The Red-Headed League’ was dissolved.
Holmes recognised Spaulding who was actually John Clay, a notorious criminal.