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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 Mr. Buckle’s “bibulous and senile butler” that he inherited along with his house on Great Queen Street?
(a) Mr. Foster.
(b) Mr. Spinks.
(c) Mr. Pope.
(d) Mr. Constable.

2. Through whose house does Jack escape from to the street below in the end of Chapter 9?
(a) Mr. Laurence’s.
(b) Mr. Pope’s.
(c) Mr. Smith’s.
(d) Mr. Phipps’s.

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

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

5. How many “errands” does Jack say he and his companion did for Silas in the summer of 1801 in his letter from Chapter 43?
(a) 5.
(b) 10.
(c) 30.
(d) 20.

6. Where is the bookstore called Lackington’s Temple of the Muses said to be located in Chapter 18?
(a) Finsbury Square.
(b) Great Queen Street.
(c) Lamb’s Conduit Street.
(d) Whitechapel.

7. When Tobias offers to help Jack with his inner demons in Tobias’s office in Chapter 13, Jack replies, “But what is it to you, Sir? It is my pain after all.” What is Tobias’s response?
(a) “I am a naturalist.”
(b) “I am likewise afflicted.”
(c) “I am a humanist.”
(d) “I am a priest.”

8. 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?”
(a) “He looks like a murderer.”
(b) “He looks like a thief.”
(c) “He looks like a gentleman.”
(d) “He looks like a lord.”

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

10. In what year was John Sheppard said to have been hanged in Chapter 13?
(a) 1659.
(b) 1812.
(c) 1799.
(d) 1724.

11. The visitor who arrives at Mr. Butler’s home in Chapter 37 is said to be what by the footman who answers the door?
(a) An actor.
(b) A painter.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A lawyer.

12. How is the weather described in the morning that begins Chapter 33?
(a) Sunny and clear.
(b) Crisp and windy.
(c) Gray and drizzling.
(d) Cold and snowing.

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

14. What school had Mercy briefly attended, according to the narrator in Chapter 19?
(a) Miss Franklin’s School.
(b) Miss Peterson’s School.
(c) Mrs. McFarlane’s School.
(d) St. Edward’s School for Girls.

15. Where did Mercy live in a slum with her mother in her past?
(a) Fetter Lane.
(b) Whitechapel.
(c) Chancery Lane.
(d) Lamb’s Conduit Street.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tobias is said to have purchased the hand of a thief at a little shop where in Chapter 13?

2. Who has collapsed outside the door of Mr. Butler’s study in Chapter 42?

3. What is the name of the estate where Edward Constable worked prior to working at Great Queen Street?

4. Where had Mercy Larkin’s father worked as a mechanic, according to the narrator in Chapter 19?

5. For how many gentlemen is Miss Mott cooking dinner in the beginning of Chapter 4?

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