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

3. 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 a humanist.”
(c) “I am likewise afflicted.”
(d) “I am a priest.”

4. What role is Tobias playing when he arrives at Mr. Butler’s home in Chapter 39?
(a) Sir Spencer Spence.
(b) Sir William McReady.
(c) King Lear.
(d) Edward the Great.

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

6. Who is said to have painted a portrait of Tobias in 1838?
(a) Lord Byron.
(b) Charles Dickens.
(c) Samuel Laurence.
(d) Pablo Picasso.

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

8. Tobias is said in Chapter 13 to have ambitions to become “a novelist who might topple” who himself?
(a) Dickens.
(b) Lord Byron.
(c) Shelley.
(d) Thackeray.

9. Who is the driver of Mr. Butler’s coach in Chapter 18?
(a) Mr. Smith.
(b) Mr. Constable.
(c) Mr. Pope.
(d) Mr. Foster.

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

11. Where does Mr. Buckle say he formerly had his little shop in Chapter 9?
(a) Whitechapel.
(b) Wapping.
(c) Cornwell.
(d) Clerkenwell.

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

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

14. What is the name of Tobias’s wife?
(a) Mary Oates.
(b) Mercy Oates.
(c) Sarah Oates.
(d) Elizabeth Oates.

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