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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Tobias’s son?
(a) Jack Oates.
(b) Edward Oates.
(c) John Oates.
(d) Peter Oates.

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

3. What has Jack drunk a bottle of from Mr. Butler’s cellar when he awakens in the morning in Chapter 32?
(a) Gin.
(b) Scotch whisky.
(c) Claret.
(d) Wine.

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

5. What is the real role Mercy has in Mr. Butler’s household?
(a) She is his wife.
(b) She is his mistress.
(c) She is his daughter.
(d) She is his sister.

6. Who are the undertakers in Gibbons Lane that Tobias goes to see in Chapter 34?
(a) Williams & Sons.
(b) Hawke & Sons.
(c) Foster & Sons.
(d) Larkin & Sons.

7. Who was the master of Mr. Buckle’s home on Great Queen Street prior to Mr. Buckle?
(a) Mr. Oates.
(b) Mr. Quentin.
(c) Mr. Foster.
(d) Mr. Spinks.

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

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

10. Tobias tells the guests at the dinner party in Chapter 7 that the cerebrum “is a vessel that never” what?
(a) “Lies.”
(b) “Leaks.”
(c) “Fluctuates.”
(d) “Wavers.”

11. Mercy tells Jack in Chapter 28 that Tobias, Mr. Butler, and Mrs. Oates know his secret. She tells Jack, “They say that you are a convict from” where?
(a) “New South Wales.”
(b) “The Irish Waters.”
(c) “Northern Africa.”
(d) “Gregory Simm’s gang.”

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

13. How much money does Tobias presume he will get for writing the story of Jack in Chapter 34?
(a) 20 pounds.
(b) 10 pounds.
(c) 5 pounds.
(d) 50 pounds.

14. In what year was Jack transported out of London with a life sentence?
(a) 1819.
(b) 1813.
(c) 1821.
(d) 1812.

15. What term from Chapter 22 refers to a working-class movement for political reform in Britain between 1838 and 1848?
(a) Republican.
(b) Tory.
(c) Chartist.
(d) Whig.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Jack pen a letter in Chapter 21?

2. What does Edward Constable define in Chapter 38 as someone who is “rich and has no manners”?

3. What does the word “finder” refer to in the narrative?

4. What is the name of the lawyer that had brought Mr. Buckle his “Great Good Fortune”?

5. What is the conclusion that the “doctor” comes to after inspecting the household’s servants in Chapter 39?

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