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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 was the name of Jack’s benefactor growing up?
(a) Wilf Partridge.
(b) Edward Constable.
(c) Henry Phipps.
(d) Silas Smith.

2. The “doctor” who appears at Mr. Butler’s home in Chapters 37-39 speaks of what being present on Great Queen Street?
(a) Dysentery.
(b) Black Plague.
(c) Contagion.
(d) Tuberculosis.

3. Percy Butler is said to be no taller than what height in Chapter 30?
(a) 6'.
(b) 5'.
(c) 5’2”.
(d) 4’10”.

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

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?
(a) Mary Britten.
(b) Sarah Oates.
(c) Mary Oates.
(d) Elizabeth Warriner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tobias tells the guests at the dinner party in Chapter 7 that the cerebrum “is a vessel that never” what?

2. In what year was John Sheppard said to have been hanged in Chapter 13?

3. What is the name of the hangman at Newgate Prison, according to the narrator in Chapter 33?

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

5. Where is the bookstore called Lackington’s Temple of the Muses said to be located in Chapter 18?

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