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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 37-39.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the real role Mercy has in Mr. Butler’s household?
(a) She is his wife.
(b) She is his mistress.
(c) She is his daughter.
(d) She is his sister.

2. Mercy tells Jack in Chapter 28 that Tobias, Mr. Butler, and Mrs. Oates know his secret. She tells Jack, “They say that you are a convict from” where?
(a) “Northern Africa.”
(b) “New South Wales.”
(c) “Gregory Simm’s gang.”
(d) “The Irish Waters.”

3. Jack urges Constable to tell the coach driver that Jack wants “to dance with his sister” named what, in Chapter 18?
(a) Miss Lineman.
(b) Miss Class.
(c) Miss Flask.
(d) Miss Titter.

4. Who offers to send his friends to find Henry Phipps in Chapter 32?
(a) Mr. Constable.
(b) Mr. Britten.
(c) Mr. Pope.
(d) Mr. Francis.

5. The narrator notes in Chapter 25 that there are what “in all crooked businesses”?
(a) “Two stories.”
(b) “Two heads of state.”
(c) “Two sets of books.”
(d) “Two sets of obstacles.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the profession of Mr. Tobias Oates?

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

3. Where did Mercy live in a slum with her mother in her past?

4. In Chapter 7, Mr. Hawthorne describes an article from The Chronicle about a Russian gentleman who came from Sebastopol to learn what in London?

5. Chapter 17 begins on Tuesday morning on what date?

(see the answer key)

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