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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the precise date given by the narrator in Chapter 1 when the man with the red waistcoat arrives in London?
(a) September 14, 1837.
(b) March 12, 1836.
(c) April 15, 1837.
(d) May 1, 1837.

2. What is the name of Mr. Buckle’s “bibulous and senile butler” that he inherited along with his house on Great Queen Street?
(a) Mr. Spinks.
(b) Mr. Foster.
(c) Mr. Constable.
(d) Mr. Pope.

3. To whom does Jack pen a letter in Chapter 21?
(a) Silas Smith.
(b) Wilf Partridge.
(c) Henry Phipps.
(d) Mercy Larkin.

4. Tobias tells the guests at the dinner party in Chapter 7 that the cerebrum “is a vessel that never” what?
(a) “Lies.”
(b) “Leaks.”
(c) “Wavers.”
(d) “Fluctuates.”

5. What does Miss Mott reply when Mercy says in Chapter 4, “I don’t think he’s a footman at all. Don’t he look ever so distinguished?”
(a) “He looks like a thief.”
(b) “He looks like a murderer.”
(c) “He looks like a gentleman.”
(d) “He looks like a lord.”

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of Mercy’s mother?

3. What physical curiosity is noted of the man in the red waistcoat both aboard the coach and outside the gin bar in Chapter 1?

4. What is the name of the estate where Edward Constable worked prior to working at Great Queen Street?

5. At what inn does the man in the red waistcoat arrive in the beginning of Chapter 1?

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