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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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. Constable.
(b) Mr. Pope.
(c) Mr. Foster.
(d) Mr. Spinks.

2. Where had Mercy Larkin’s father worked as a mechanic, according to the narrator in Chapter 19?
(a) The Andrews Pickle Factory.
(b) The Woodell Pickle Factory.
(c) The Maxwell Tea Company.
(d) The McLaughlin Tea Company.

3. Who is the chief actor at the Lyceum Theatre and a guest at Mr. Buckle’s estate in Chapter 7?
(a) Edward Constable.
(b) Henry Hawthorne.
(c) Samuel Laurence.
(d) Wilf Partridge.

4. Tobias is said to have purchased the hand of a thief at a little shop where in Chapter 13?
(a) Wapping.
(b) Tyburn.
(c) Lyceum.
(d) Whitechapel.

5. What physical curiosity is noted of the man in the red waistcoat both aboard the coach and outside the gin bar in Chapter 1?
(a) He has a scar from his mouth to his temple.
(b) He is missing three fingers in his right hand.
(c) He is missing two fingers on his left hand.
(d) He is missing his right foot.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what inn does the man in the red waistcoat arrive in the beginning of Chapter 1?

2. What is the name of Tobias’s sister-in-law who lives in his household?

3. 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?”

4. What is the profession of Mr. Tobias Oates?

5. Who is the 70-year-old woman that the man in the red waistcoat addresses outside of her home at Number Four Cecil Street in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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