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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 73-75.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the “lever man, a great half-wit pugilist” that Jack describes in his letter in Chapter 43?
(a) Wexall.
(b) Pope.
(c) Smith.
(d) Foster.

2. For how long is Tobias to be gone in Gloucester, according to Mary in Chapter 64?
(a) 4 days.
(b) 2 days.
(c) 6 days.
(d) 5 days.

3. What kind of boat do Jack and Tobias escape in, in Chapter 70?
(a) A punt.
(b) A yacht.
(c) A steam ship.
(d) A canoe.

4. What school had Mercy briefly attended, according to the narrator in Chapter 19?
(a) Miss Peterson’s School.
(b) Mrs. McFarlane’s School.
(c) St. Edward’s School for Girls.
(d) Miss Franklin’s School.

5. Tobias is said in Chapter 13 to have ambitions to become “a novelist who might topple” who himself?
(a) Dickens.
(b) Thackeray.
(c) Lord Byron.
(d) Shelley.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the man that Tobias’s father was accused of killing when Tobias was a child?

2. What is the name of the young girl orphan that Tobias first views in the morgue in Chapter 34?

3. Whose assurance does Tobias have that the Thief-taker will receive messages at the Bull, according to the narrator in Chapter 66?

4. What is the name of Mary Britten’s “big red-boned son”?

5. Where had Mercy Larkin’s father worked as a mechanic, according to the narrator in Chapter 19?

(see the answer key)

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