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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 73-75.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Mercy’s father?
(a) James Larkin.
(b) Horace Larkin.
(c) Peter Larkin.
(d) Andrew Larkin.

2. At what location do Jack and Tobias and their fellow passengers decide to abandon the coach and walk the road while the train descends in Chapter 66?
(a) Whitechapel.
(b) Great Queen Street.
(c) Tyburn.
(d) Burlip Hill.

3. What is the name of Mr. Buckle’s “bibulous and senile butler” that he inherited along with his house on Great Queen Street?
(a) Mr. Foster.
(b) Mr. Pope.
(c) Mr. Spinks.
(d) Mr. Constable.

4. When Tobias offers to help Jack with his inner demons in Tobias’s office in Chapter 13, Jack replies, “But what is it to you, Sir? It is my pain after all.” What is Tobias’s response?
(a) “I am a naturalist.”
(b) “I am a humanist.”
(c) “I am a priest.”
(d) “I am likewise afflicted.”

5. By what nickname does Jack call Mercy in Chapter 20?
(a) Lady.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Judy.
(d) Muffin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Mary Britten’s “big red-boned son”?

2. It is Jack’s plan to travel down the river until he and Tobias arrive where, in Chapter 71?

3. The narrator notes in Chapter 25 that there are what “in all crooked businesses”?

4. By what year does Jack say in his letter that he and his family “ate best brisket, chump chops, rolled roast beef from the butcher’s shop in Upper Street, and Mrs. Britten was the owner of two freehold titles” in Chapter 58?

5. What is the name of the young girl orphan that Tobias first views in the morgue in Chapter 34?

(see the answer key)

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