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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many cats did Mr. Buckle inherit along with his house on Great Queen Street?
(a) 10.
(b) 5.
(c) 7.
(d) 3.

2. Mary Britten’s medicinal sausages are implied to induce what?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Vomiting.
(c) Abortion.
(d) Pain.

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

4. 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.

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

6. What is the name of the lawyer that had brought Mr. Buckle his “Great Good Fortune”?
(a) Mr. Foster.
(b) Mr. Warriner.
(c) Mr. Pope.
(d) Mr. Makepeace.

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

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

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

10. What does Mercy discover left behind on Mr. Butler’s desk after Jack has left the room at the end of Chapter 42?
(a) Jack’s watch.
(b) Jack’s ring.
(c) Jack’s pistol.
(d) Jack’s letter.

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

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

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

14. What night of the week is it when the man with the red waistcoat arrives in London in the opening of Chapter 1?
(a) Saturday.
(b) Wednesday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Thursday.

15. Of what book written Tobias is it said that Mary Oates “never grasped the point”?
(a) Great Expectations.
(b) Captain Crumley.
(c) Oliver Twist.
(d) Mrs. Darcy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Mercy tells Jack in Chapter 41 that she went to a Metzmetric Concert where with Mr. Constable?

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

4. What term from Chapter 22 refers to a working-class movement for political reform in Britain between 1838 and 1848?

5. 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?

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