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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Jack do with Mercy when she encounters him in the basement in Chapter 41?
(a) He rapes her.
(b) He lets her leave the house.
(c) He locks her in her room.
(d) He hits her on the head with a lantern.

4. What is the name of Mercy’s mother?
(a) Sarah Larkin.
(b) Marjorie Larkin.
(c) Elizabeth Larkin.
(d) Mary Larkin.

5. How many paces behind him does Mr. Butler instruct Jack to keep as they walk to Tobias’s home in Chapter 22?
(a) 10.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

6. Who is the old dustman that Silas arranged to pick up the sacks of stolen goods that Jack stole, according to Jack’s letter in Chapter 43?
(a) Mr. Jamm.
(b) Mr. James.
(c) Mr. Figgs.
(d) Mr. Cobblestone.

7. Who is the first to go into the scullery and meet with the visiting “doctor” in Chapter 39?
(a) Tobias Oates.
(b) Jack Maggs.
(c) Mr. Constable.
(d) Mrs. Halfstairs.

8. Where does Jack say he and his adopted family moved after the summer of 1801?
(a) Buckingham Palace.
(b) Whitechapel.
(c) Wapping.
(d) Islington.

9. Chapter 17 begins on Tuesday morning on what date?
(a) June 16, 1837.
(b) September 12, 1838.
(c) June 19, 1836.
(d) April 18, 1837.

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

11. 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.

12. What is the name of the young carpenter’s apprentice that Tobias sees burned in the morgue in Chapter 34?
(a) Edward Constable.
(b) Silas Smith.
(c) Thomas Griff.
(d) Wilf Partridge.

13. In Chapter 34, Tobias says he is setting off for what location to write about a recent fire?
(a) Wapping.
(b) Brighton.
(c) Whitechapel.
(d) Lamb’s Conduit Street.

14. Where does Henry Hawthorne have lunch with Tobias on April 23 in Chapter 25?
(a) The Gloucester Inn.
(b) The Bull Inn.
(c) The Sergeant’s Inn.
(d) The White Lion.

15. 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 two fingers on his left hand.
(c) He is missing three fingers in his right hand.
(d) He is missing his right foot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mercy discover left behind on Mr. Butler’s desk after Jack has left the room at the end of Chapter 42?

2. What is the precise date given by the narrator in Chapter 1 when the man with the red waistcoat arrives in London?

3. What weapon does Jack carry as he goes to the door of Mr. Butler’s study in Chapter 42?

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

5. How much money does Tobias presume he will get for writing the story of Jack in Chapter 34?

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