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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Latimer and Peters' first contact with DImitrios supposed to be?
(a) A face-to-face meeting.
(b) A telephone call.
(c) A telegram.
(d) A letter.

2. What kind of coffee does Mr. Peters make for Latimer and himself when Latimer visits his apartment?
(a) Algerian.
(b) French.
(c) Italian.
(d) American.

3. What was the name of the establishment Peters co-owned at one time?
(a) Le Giraud.
(b) Le Sheik.
(c) The Casbah.
(d) Le Kasbah.

4. Why does Peters say to Dimitrios that Latimer is invaluable to him?
(a) He has the power to write stories.
(b) He is an Englishman.
(c) He knows Colonel Haki.
(d) He can confirm that Visser is dead.

5. What was the name of the woman who used to measure up potential clients for Dimitrios?
(a) Monique.
(b) La Preveza.
(c) The Grand Duchess.
(d) Frida.

6. Where does Latimer go to satisfy his feeling of wrongdoing?
(a) The cemetery.
(b) The police station.
(c) His hotel room.
(d) Peters' apartment.

7. Whose face did Dimitrios once spit in during a meeting?
(a) The Grand Duchess.
(b) Visser.
(c) Peters.
(d) Vazoff.

8. How does Latimer refer to Grodek in the letter in Chapter 9?
(a) Lord.
(b) The spy.
(c) W.
(d) G.

9. Who was Peters' and Dimitrios' contact in Sofia during their drug trade?
(a) Grodek.
(b) Vazoff.
(c) Visser.
(d) Siantos.

10. What is Monsieur Le Duc's real name?
(a) Siantos Kropols.
(b) Edmund Gerald.
(c) Manus Visser.
(d) Edward Peters.

11. What was Grodek's mission in Belgrade?
(a) Become a mole in the army.
(b) Obtain a map of a minefield.
(c) Assassinate the Prime Minister.
(d) Motivate the troops.

12. What does Latimer say Grodek's car suggests?
(a) Frugality.
(b) Money.
(c) Vanity.
(d) Poverty.

13. At the end of Chapter 12, what does Peters say Dimitrios has become?
(a) A member of the Board of Directors of the Eurasian Credit Trust.
(b) The drug smuggling king of France.
(c) The Prime Minister.
(d) An assassin.

14. On the night of their meeting with Dimitrios, what does Latimer insist that Peters do?
(a) Buy him expensive champagne.
(b) Never contact him again.
(c) Visit him in England sometime.
(d) Forget he ever existed.

15. Who does Latimer say Grodek was employed by?
(a) Italy.
(b) Switzerland.
(c) France.
(d) Poland.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Grodek say he doesn't read detective novels?

2. What friend of DImitrios did Visser go to in order to find out where DImitrios was?

3. What does Peters say is the art of being successful in life?

4. What time does Grodek write that his chauffeur will pick Latimer up?

5. What does Ambler compare a face to?

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