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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25-27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the secret that Tobias is said to harbor in Chapter 10?
(a) He is a millionaire.
(b) He is an escaped convict.
(c) He is in love with his wife’s sister.
(d) His is secretly married to two women.

2. What is the name of Mary Britten’s “big red-boned son”?
(a) Silas Britten.
(b) Peter Britten.
(c) Jack Britten.
(d) Tom Britten.

3. For how many gentlemen is Miss Mott cooking dinner in the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 7.
(d) 6.

4. 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 lord.”
(b) “He looks like a gentleman.”
(c) “He looks like a thief.”
(d) “He looks like a murderer.”

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Tobias’s wife?

2. Of what book written Tobias is it said that Mary Oates “never grasped the point”?

3. What is the name of Mr. Buckle’s “bibulous and senile butler” that he inherited along with his house on Great Queen Street?

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

5. On what street does Tobias live in Chapter 10?

(see the answer key)

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