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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the truth about the history between Constable and Mr. Phipps?
(a) They were brothers.
(b) They had been lovers.
(c) They had committed a robbery together.
(d) They had been rivals over Mercy.

2. The letters that Jack sends to Henry Phipps are written with what?
(a) Magnetic ink.
(b) Marker.
(c) Disappearing ink.
(d) Blood.

3. Where had Tobias spent his fourth year at a home for orphaned boys?
(a) Whitechapel.
(b) Tyburn.
(c) Shropshire.
(d) Wapping.

4. How old was Tobias when his father was charged with killing a man?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

5. What does Jack say he was known for “in the Colony” when speaking to Tobias in Chapter 62?
(a) Authority.
(b) Vengeance.
(c) Planning.
(d) Execution.

6. What do Jack and Tobias use to bail water from the sinking boat in Chapter 71?
(a) Jack’s suitcase.
(b) Jack’s boots.
(c) Tobias’s attaché case.
(d) Tobias’s top hat.

7. What doctor does the cabbie take Tobias to see in the beginning of Chapter 52?
(a) Dr. Smith.
(b) Dr. Peterman.
(c) Dr. Hardwick.
(d) Dr. Grieves.

8. What substance in Mary Britten’s abortion pills “gave all our hands an unpleasant fishy smell” according to Jack in his letter from Chapter 58?
(a) Ermine.
(b) Pennyroyal.
(c) Argot.
(d) Ergot.

9. When Jack met Henry, Henry told him he was an orphan and that he was to be sent where to live with other orphans, according to Jack’s story in Chapter 71?
(a) Tyburn.
(b) Chancery Lane.
(c) Wapping.
(d) Harrismith.

10. Mary Oates refers to the doctor that treated her son as what after his departure in Chapter 54?
(a) A pawnbroker.
(b) A jackal.
(c) A thief.
(d) A hypocrite.

11. At what location do Jack and Tobias and their fellow passengers decide to abandon the coach and walk the road while the train descends in Chapter 66?
(a) Whitechapel.
(b) Tyburn.
(c) Great Queen Street.
(d) Burlip Hill.

12. What author does Jack say he never heard Silas mention, though his schemes would have met with his approval, in his letter from Chapter 59?
(a) Jackson Anders.
(b) Lord Willington.
(c) Charles Dickens.
(d) Adam Smith.

13. Whose name does Jack insist that Tobias never repeat again in Chapter 73?
(a) Mary’s.
(b) Sophina’s.
(c) Sarah’s.
(d) Elizabeth’s.

14. What does Jack tell Mr. Spinks he should never look in the eye in Chapter 46?
(a) A cat.
(b) A pooka.
(c) A lion.
(d) A mule.

15. How does Jack kill the Thief-taker in Chapter 68?
(a) He shoots him.
(b) He hits him with an axe.
(c) He slits his throat.
(d) He hangs him.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Mary tell Elizabeth that she’s known about her condition in Chapter 86?

2. When Mr. Buckle mentions the name Jack to Henry in Chapter 73, Henry’s pulse is said to be “racing as it had raced the day he had been delivered at the door of” whose orphanage?

3. In Chapter 91, the narrator states that Mercy insisted the Maggs family move from Sydney to where after her arrival?

4. For how many years does Jack say he spent in “a hell called Moreton Bay” in Chapter 47?

5. What does the doctor demand as payment for his services after he’s saved Tobias’s baby from infection in Chapter 53?

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