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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was John Sheppard said to have been hanged in Chapter 13?
(a) Lyceum.
(b) Tyburn.
(c) Wapping.
(d) Whitechapel.

2. Who is said to have painted a portrait of Tobias in 1838?
(a) Samuel Laurence.
(b) Pablo Picasso.
(c) Charles Dickens.
(d) Lord Byron.

3. What is the name of Tobias’s sister-in-law who lives in his household?
(a) Wilma.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Elizabeth.
(d) Patricia.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Tobias is said in Chapter 13 to have ambitions to become “a novelist who might topple” who himself?

4. What is the name of Tobias’s son?

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

(see the answer key)

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