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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the profession of Mr. Tobias Oates?
(a) He is an orchestra maestro.
(b) He is an actor.
(c) He is an author.
(d) He is a painter.

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

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

5. Mercy tells Jack in Chapter 28 that Mr. Buckle had a sister that was transported where?
(a) To Botany Bay.
(b) To Waterson Bay.
(c) To America.
(d) To South Africa.

6. Mercy tells Jack in Chapter 41 that she went to a Metzmetric Concert where with Mr. Constable?
(a) Chancery Lane.
(b) Lamb’s Conduit Street.
(c) Great Queen Street.
(d) Great Windmill Street.

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

8. 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) “Northern Africa.”
(b) “New South Wales.”
(c) “The Irish Waters.”
(d) “Gregory Simm’s gang.”

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

10. Who offers to send his friends to find Henry Phipps in Chapter 32?
(a) Mr. Pope.
(b) Mr. Britten.
(c) Mr. Francis.
(d) Mr. Constable.

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

12. 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.

13. What is the name of the coach that the man with the red waistcoat arrives in, in the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) The Jackson.
(b) The Blue Pony.
(c) The Rocket.
(d) The Charger.

14. Where had Mercy Larkin’s father worked as a mechanic, according to the narrator in Chapter 19?
(a) The Andrews Pickle Factory.
(b) The Maxwell Tea Company.
(c) The Woodell Pickle Factory.
(d) The McLaughlin Tea Company.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What school had Mercy briefly attended, according to the narrator in Chapter 19?

2. What is the name of Tobias’s sister-in-law who lives in his household?

3. In what year was Jack transported out of London with a life sentence?

4. The “doctor” who appears at Mr. Butler’s home in Chapters 37-39 speaks of what being present on Great Queen Street?

5. In Chapter 34, Tobias says he is setting off for what location to write about a recent fire?

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