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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 37-39.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the conclusion that the “doctor” comes to after inspecting the household’s servants in Chapter 39?
(a) To call in more doctors.
(b) To quarantine the house.
(c) To burn the house.
(d) To evacuate the house.

2. To whom does Jack pen a letter in Chapter 21?
(a) Mercy Larkin.
(b) Henry Phipps.
(c) Silas Smith.
(d) Wilf Partridge.

3. What does the word “finder” refer to in the narrative?
(a) A thief.
(b) A miner.
(c) A prostitute.
(d) A poor person.

4. What does Edward Constable define in Chapter 38 as someone who is “rich and has no manners”?
(a) A debutante.
(b) An intellectual.
(c) An eccentric.
(d) A snob.

5. What is the name of the hangman at Newgate Prison, according to the narrator in Chapter 33?
(a) James Warsaw.
(b) Samuel Laurence.
(c) Edward Constable.
(d) Harold Hoban.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was John Sheppard said to have been hanged in Chapter 13?

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

3. What term from Chapter 22 refers to a working-class movement for political reform in Britain between 1838 and 1848?

4. The “doctor” who appears at Mr. Butler’s home in Chapters 37-39 speaks of what being present on Great Queen Street?

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

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