Night Probe! | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Prologue, Chapter 1-4

1. What is the date in Chapter 1?

May 1914.

2. What nickname has the train engineer given the locomotive?

Gallopin' Lena.

3. When was the locomotive built?

1911.

4. What is Richard Essex doing on the train?

Writing a letter to his wife.

5. Where is Harvey Shields in Chapter 1?

On a sinking Canadian luxury liner.

6. What can Shields see from where he is at the beginning of the book?

A dead girl.

7. What happens to a ship on the St. Lawrence River?

Collision.

8. What does Shields ask a man to find for him?

A travel case.

9. What time does a ship sink on the St. Lawrence River?

2:10 a.m.

10. What happens to Shields at the end of Chapter 2?

He drowns.

11. Who is a train ticket agent?